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...small dog and three of "the strongest men in the colony," began walking towards the mountains that squatted on the horizon to the west of the rough and rowdy settlement. No one had been able to reach that dusky blue range, let alone cross it, and the headstrong young botanist was filled with "an enthusiastic pride of going farther than any person has yet been." Though he did just that, and managed to get home again, what Caley and his convict assistants encountered during their three-week expedition would permanently damage his health and later lead him to describe...
...While the self-taught botanist had just a compass and guesswork to guide him, the team - brought together by the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden to mark the bicentenary of his feat by reenacting a segment of it - has all the tools of modern bushwalking. When one of the group injures his leg in a fall, there are mobile phones to summon a car along a fire trail. Caley may have put up with flour, dried beef and the birds the party's dog caught, but these walkers have freeze-dried kangaroo korma and bolognese, fresh snow peas, peanut butter...
...Everything we learned about science, we learned from the movies.” That’s what the folks down at the Center for Astrophysics claim. Begin your education at the Center’s monthly sci-fi screening. This month in Silent Running (1972), one heroic botanist and three robots take the mission to rescue earth’s vegetation into their own hands in the face of government inaction. Free. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. for the 7:15 p.m. screening at the Center for Astrophysics...
Consider the LCDs on our watches, cell phones, PDAs, laptops and, increasingly, TVs. Liquid crystals were discovered in 1888 by Friedrich Reinitzer, an Austrian botanist, and named a year later by Otto Lehman, a German physicist. Since then, they have taken a leisurely route to our homes. The first prototype display emerged from RCA's Sarnoff Research Center in 1968. Two years later, Optel began producing the first watches with an LCD. I first got a computer with an LCD (an Apple Portable) 15 years ago. The road from discovery to mass market took about 116 years...
...happy," she says. For this bride of Christ, joy comes with each attendance at morning Mass: "We couldn't be more intimately united with Him every day." As for Sister Antoinette, her faith is cultivated daily along with the standard roses she tends in the central cloister. "As a botanist," she says, "I always allow for the grace of God." Needless to say, they're blooming...