Random links
- The Science of Pomato Plants and Fruit Salad Trees
- The crazy things you can accomplish with grafting: "In Australia, James and Kerry West grow and sell four types of fruit salad trees, each of which bears several different kinds of fruit. Stone fruit salad trees grow peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots and peachcots. Citrus salad trees offer a winter and summer orange, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruits, tangelos and pomelos. Multi-apple trees boast between two and four different kinds of apples and multi-nashi trees produce between two and four different kinds of Asian pears."
- Pirate Party takes Mayor's chair in Swiss city
- "A Pirate Party branch founded last November has scored a win in regional elections in Switzerland, with the city of Eichberg to fly the pirate flag under new mayor, Alex Arnold ... [who] defeated two candidates from the Swiss Peoples Party to take the part-time mayoralty and took 60 percent of the vote."
- Fossil Forest May Sprout Again as the Arctic Warms
- "climate forecasts suggest that, by 2100, the now-uninhabited Bylot Island where the fossilized forest was discovered will support temperatures similar to those prevalent when the forest thrived."
- Firms tell employees: Avoid after-hours e-mail
- "No after-hours e-mail is part of a growing effort by some employers to rebuild the boundaries between work and home that have crumbled amid the do-more-with-less ethos of the economic downturn."