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...good place to ponder this puzzle -- or to find out anything else you ever wanted to know about mosquitoes -- is an innocuous-looking brick building near the University of Florida's Gainesville campus. Its halls nourish, among other obscure yet useful twigs of the mighty oak that is the U.S. government, the Mosquito Unit, or, as it is formally known, the Mosquito and Fly Research Unit at the Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
From this point on, in any case, sex no longer rules her life; violence does -- and this is where we come in. To nourish and develop her eggs, she needs what entomologists call, with admirable directness, a "blood meal" -- and she needs a new one for every batch of eggs she lays. Every mosquito bite in the history of life on earth has been inflicted by a female. This is science, not misogyny...
According to Aleo, in everyday life we tend to depend on the critical, conscious part of our mind. Hypnotism taps into the subconscious part--and when we are in a relaxed conscious state, we can use this less arguable state of mind and nourish it with positive ideas. Hypnotism is natural. According to Aleo, we are often in this relaxed mindframe without even knowing...
...dangerous variety of ultraviolet, penetrates scores of meters below the surface of the oceans. There the radiation can kill phytoplankton (one-celled plants) and krill (tiny shrimplike animals), which are at the very bottom of the ocean food chain. Since these organisms, found in greatest concentrations in Antarctic waters, nourish larger fish, the ultimate consumers -- humans -- may face a maritime food shortage. Scientists believe the lower plants and animals can adapt to rising UV levels by developing UV-absorbing cell pigments. But that works only up to a point, and no one knows what that point...
...seek to nourish people's spiritual life and provide a sense of community for Catholics in the University," she said...