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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
A diarrhea-producing intestinal bacterium that causes typhus and poisons raw milk, eggs, meat, and poultry.
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The sticky tip of a pistil. Also: the pigment clusters that serve photosynthetic microbes as a light sensor.
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The theory that continents are mobile rather than fixed. Proposed by A. Snider in 1858. See Plate Tectonics.
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A plant that likes saline soil (cordgrass, rushes, pickleweed). Most plants need less salty soil to grow in.
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Coarse sedimentary rock composed of weather-rounded rock fragments cemented with silt and clay. See Breccia.
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A strip of land that juts seaward, usually with a cliff adjacent. Called a promontory when high and narrow.
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The decay of an unstable nucleus (radionuclide) of an atom losing protons, neutrons, or photons at random.
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A vertebrate whose skull has one pair of openings behind the eyes (like mammals and their close relatives).
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Proteins that augment (catalyze) and manage chemical reactions in cells by lowering the activation energy.
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The layer of cells lining a body cavity to protect it (e.g., the stomach). Both plants and animals have it.
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