endangered plant and animal language

Information about local ecosystems is intricately woven into indigenous languages and cannot be replaced simply through translation.

For example, the Siberian Todzhu tribe has many different and complex names for reindeer, according to the animals' life stages. What is called a "chary" by the Todzu, would be translated in English as "a two-year-old male, un-castrated, rideable reindeer".

chirality

Chiral is used to describe an object that is non-superimposable on its mirror image.
eg: human hands

"Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink," Alice said to her cat.

(Pict: Left handed helix)

pharming

Pharming refers to the use of genetic engineering to insert genes that code for useful pharmaceuticals into host animals or plants that would otherwise not express those genes.

rice+breast milk

model organism

Model organisms are widely used to explore potential causes and treatments for human disease when human experimentation would be unfeasible or unethical. Arabidopsis thaliana, currently the most popular model plant.

kathe kollwitz

kathe kollwitz

Pink Not Dead

Pink is not dead and not just for women. Here's a piece of artwork by Maurycyy Gomulicki. He created this to explore the pink culture.

Read more at http://www.hemmy.net/2007/09/21/pretty-not-dead-project.