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The secret life of plants. I’ve been sprouting various beans all summer, and these guys are always littering the dining table, trying to escape en route from the sprouting jar to the plate.
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By Magda, 29 August 2009
By Magda, 27 August 2009
Threespine stickleback pretending to be barracuda. These guys were commisioned by fellow Flickerite Frenquency to commemorate the end of his PhD studies of this fish species. He studied the evolutionary loss of pelvic spines and was able to switch the relevant genes back on, producing fish with one or both perlvic spines. The thesis title was “The Genomic Basis of Parallel Evolution in Three-spined Sticklebacks”. Continue reading… By Magda, 8 August 2009
Up the porch and through the length of the house and out the kitchen door to this small garden retreat. I spend a lot of time here these days. The benches are a favourite sleeping place of the cats, and great for breakfast because this outdoor room faces east. By Magda, 7 July 2009
 View from the hotel where I stayed in April 2008. By Magda, 15 May 2009
All the lower branches on all the trees in these photos have been cut down for firewood and to feed cows and goats. Retaining the top part of the foliage preserves the tree which helps to prevent mud slides. Clearly not an ideal situation but better than clear cutting altogether.
These photos are from just north of Kathmandu Valley, on the drive from the lookout at Nakargot back to Kathmandu. By Magda, 13 April 2009
There are a lot of goats in Calcutta. You see them picking their way in around traffic, eating garbage and paper, and even being herded through the narrow back streets. Imagine coming up on a herd of 50 goats in the streets of YOUR city! In the surrounding restaurants, the goat meat is listed as mutton.  Chained to a post, resting on the sidewalk, a hairy goat that Marc says was "much creepier" in person. By Magda, 14 March 2009
By Magda, 17 February 2009
 Red earth road under construction. Auroville, India. The natural colours in south India were just fantastic. This red earth in Auroville was used directly to stucco walls, resulting in buildings that perfectly matched their surroundings.
Continue reading… By Marc, 30 January 2009
Here’s the sketch I was making when the guys from Hubli introduced themselves.
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