The African cycad Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi Zamiaceae
An interesting twist on OpenSource publishing, according to Plant News:

The Journal of Experimental Botany has provided open access to papers if the authors’ institutions subscribe to the journal. Other authors who want their papers to be freely accessible will have to pay the full cost of publication […]

A person with full best friend status was married last Saturday. Congratulations S&D! A lot of people got up and spoke about the happy couple, generally about one or another, but mostly about the man (D). The difference has to do with a couple of things, one of which being the culture […]

The only place I’ve ever seen Great White Sharks in the wild (I’m not a SCUBA diver!) is in South Africa, where you can see them from cliffs, swimming back and forth looking for penguins (and seals?). I’ve heard there were some recent attacks near Cape Town (False Bay) by great whites, but I […]