VERMONT BOTANICAL CLUB

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In most parts of the world, the phrase “town meeting” can mean just about any gathering where local citizens offer their opinions, hear from candidates, or endure the latest government “dogand-pony show.” As Susan Clark and Frank Bryan readily admit in All Those in Favor, their new and timely book on Vermont’s town meetings, references to the term in college textbooks “are as apt to be found in...

Botanical ratchets.

Ratcheting surfaces are a common motif in nature and appear in plant awns and grasses. They are known to proffer selective advantages for seed dispersion and burial. In two simple model experiments, we show that these anisotropically toothed surfaces naturally serve as motion rectifiers and generically move in a unidirectional manner, when subjected to temporally and spatially symmetric excitat...

Vermont Wildlife Linkage Habitat Analysis

Botanical Ratchets Supplementary Data Subject Collections Botanical Ratchets

Supplementary data tml http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/suppl/2009/03/06/rspb.2008.1685.DC1.h "Data Supplement" References http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/276/1665/2243.full.html#ref-list-1 This article cites 15 articles, 2 of which can be accessed free Subject collections (129 articles) biophysics • (54 articles) biomaterials • Articles on similar topics can be f...

Dietary and botanical anxiolytics

Drugs used to treat anxiety have many negative side effects including addiction, depression, suicide, seizures, sexual dysfunction, headaches and more. Anxiolytic medications do not restore normal levels of neurotransmitters but instead manipulate the brain chemistry. For example, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) prevent the reuptake of serotonin from the synapse allowing seroton...