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Friday, July 18, 2025
Vavilov and his astonishing botanists - III
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Vavilov’s disappearance from the Plant Institute led to confusion. That month the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition awarded Vavilov a gold m...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Vavilov and his astonishing botanists - II
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One of Vavilov's former pupils, a peasant horticulturalist named Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, followed Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory that...
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Vavilov and his astonishing botanists - I
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The Bureau of Applied Botany and Plant Breeding, a botanical institute dedicated to the study of plant life, was founded in the city of Pet...
Friday, June 20, 2025
Hiroo Onoda - II
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By the time Onoda returned to Japan, he became something of a legend in Japan. People wanted to see a man who was still living in 1944! Or ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Hiroo Onoda - I
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On December 17, 1944, the Japanese army sent a twenty-three year old soldier named Hiroo Onoda to the Philippines to join the Sugi Brigade. ...
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Kokura's luck
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In Fluke: Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters , Brian Klaas says that we give simplified, rational explanations for the w...
Friday, May 16, 2025
Biological luck - IV
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The problem is that, even with all this knowledge about how the brain is formed, it is still not possible to make a precise prediction about...
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