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...Harvard professor with a passion for studying everyday phenomena, including how worms wriggle, flags flap, and skin shrivels, has co-authored a report research explaining how the Venus flytrap is able to snap shut almost instantaneously...
Mahadevan explained in an interview that when an insect lands on one of the flytrap’s hinged leaves, it stimulates small hairs on their surfaces. This stimulation moves water within the plant and causes the flytrap to store elastic energy, which is then released as the flytrap shuts. Once the plant snaps shut, it takes hours to reopen...
...artistic" poses since 1997. With police threatening to shut down the event - several complaints are pending, so Von Hagens may yet be arrested - and some medical professionals calling it a travesty, we wanted sound bites of public outrage, or at least shock. We'd fallen into a Venus-flytrap of p.r., since anything we wrote would be more publicity for Von Hagens' one-man (and a lot of dead bodies) show. We didn't care; we knew a good story when we saw one. Or so we thought. Unfortunately for our stories, the non-journalists in attendance seemed nonplussed. David...
...buzzed in with "somewhere near Romania." This premature gesticulation caused me not only to sit in a corner and wear a dunce cap for the first three episodes but to do things never before seen on a game show. When the host began a question with the words "Venus flytrap..." I emitted a low, guttural noise, which sounded like reee. I had started to say the name of Tim Reid, the actor who played Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati, when I realized I couldn't think of his first name, so I halted mid-syllable, fearing a partial answer...
...like a Venus flytrap. It's morecomplicated than it seems to be. The barriers toenter are very low--rent the place, get someequipment. You don't need to launch a satellite,"he says...