Swiss researchers: Banner year for 'giant's penis'
BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 29 (UPI) --Researchers at a Swiss university said this year's "giant's penis" blossom is the largest the plant has bloomed since it started flowering in 2011. Scientists at the University of Basel's botanical garden announced ...
Small Parking Spaces. Big Cars.
The German newspaper, Die Welt (the world), ran an article, in August 2014, about a growing problem involving parking spaces, particularly in Germany: the parking spaces are too small. Spaces in many parking facilities were on the small end of the size spectrum when built. As car sizes continue to i ...
Kupferschmidt: Ebola vaccine tests needlessly delayed, researchers claim
Via ScienceInsider, a report by Kai Kupferschmidt: Ebola vaccine tests needlessly delayed, researchers claim. Stephan Becker is tired of waiting. The virologist at the University of Marburg in Germany is part of a consortium of scientists that is ready to do a safety trial of one of the candidate va ...
The Alps! Part 2
Sunday morning we had planned to take a train to Europe's highest train station to Aletsch glacier to view Jungfrau and other surrounding mountains. But the weather forecast for the trip was better for Monday so we decided to stick around Interlaken Sunday morning and then try the scenic route we at ...
1139 In der Fondation
Aquarell in Skizzenbuch • 13,5 x 21 cm Watercolor in sketchbook Die Metallskulptur im Vorgarten stammt von Mr. Calder Unverkäuflich.NFS. Bereits Anfang des Jahres waren wir in der Gerhard Richter-Ausstellung in Riehen/Schweiz in der Fondation Beyerler. Diesmal haben wir auf dem Weg die sehenswerte G ...
