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Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Friday, August 24, 2001
Noctilucent Clouds
Noctilucent Cloud: Observers' Homepage
Noctilucent Clouds
Observing Noctilucent Clouds
Gallery of Noctilucent Clouds
APOD: July 26, 1999 - Noctilucent Clouds
Noctilucent Clouds
Noctilucent Cloud Pictures
Noctilucent Clouds
Noctilucent Clouds
Noctilucent Clouds, Alaska Science Forum
Thursday, August 23, 2001
Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Monday, August 20, 2001
Ligers and Tigons
Sierra Safari Zoo - Liger
Hybrids
Shambala's Patrick Liger
Tiger Information and Research Page
Liger
Jade The Liger
CNN - Lion-tiger cub has his coming out - July 16, 1997
Detailed information on hybridisation in big cats. Includes tigons, ligers, leopons and others.
HYBRID AND MUTANT BIG CATS
Friday, August 17, 2001
TheOneRing.net™ | Features | Tehanu's Notes | Monstrous Regiment: Sauron, Torak and Lord Foul This is one of the most insightful portraits of Thomas Covenant that I have read.
Thursday, August 16, 2001
Paint the Moon
Inexpensive, yet surprisingly powerful laser pointing devices have become ubiquitous in America. Millions of people own such a device. Laser light stays coherent over vast distances, the beams spreading very little. In theory, even a single laser pointer could reach the Moon. The idea behind Paint the Moon is to organize millions of people in North America to try and shine their laser pointers on one area of the Moon at one time, to see if we can create a temporary visible field of color on our nearest celestial neighbor.
Wednesday, August 15, 2001
Monday, August 13, 2001
Saturday, August 11, 2001
Friday, August 10, 2001
Thursday, August 09, 2001
MPEG-4
Search for MPEG-4 on: All the Web - AltaVista - Deja -
Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard
MPEG-4 Industry Forum
Systems
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Home Page
Fraunhofer IIS-A - Audio & Multimedia - MPEG-2 / MPEG-4 Integrated Error Robust Solutions
InternetNews - Streaming Media News -- MPEG-4 Patent Holders Near
ITworld.com - Progress cited in MPEG-4 Visual Standard patent talks
MPEG-4 FAQ
TUTORIAL on the MPEG-4 Standard
Tom's Hardware Guide: Digital Video Guide - MPEG-4: Optimization of Picture Quality and Data Rate
Wednesday, August 08, 2001
Tuesday, August 07, 2001
Composting
Vermiculture
How To Breed, Raise, and Maintain A 100-Pound Stock of Worms in a Single Room
Lumbricus rubellus Hoffmeister, 1843 (Lumbricidae) Red Marsh Worm, Red Wriggler
- the Litter Worm (also known as the Red Worms or Wigglers) is an earthworm often confused with the similar Eisenia foetida. This species, unlike E. foetida is a temperate zone worm. It is an easy to culture livefood that is an excellent size for many larger tropical fish (it can be fed to smaller fish by dicing, but there are smaller worm species that can be fed to smaller fish).
- Description: This worm is a red terrestrial worm that lives in moist soil and leaf litter above moist soil
- 60-150 x 4-6 mm
- Dorsum is red-brown or red-violet and iridescent
- Ventral surface is pale
- Epigeic habit; mating and casting below ground, commonly burrows into mineral soil
- Obligate sexual reproduction
- Mature in 179 days; longevity 682-719 days
- 79-106 cocoons per year per worm
- Diapause spent in a ball 0.45 m deep in soil
Culturing is easiest in kitchen composting piles. These worms eat all vegetable matter and reproduce rapidly in compost piles that are kept moist. They survive outdoors in winter if the compost piles are deep enough to generate some heat. Otherwise, these worms are easily raised in shallow plastic boxes with loose fitting lids and about 5cm (2 inches) of moist but not wet potting soil. Place card board or newspaper clippings on top of the soil and place kitchen wastes (no animal fats or meats!) under the cardboard or newspaper. Keep moist.
Contribution of the Earthworm Lumbricus rubellus (Annelida, Oligochaeta) to the Establishment of Plasmids in Soil Bacterial Communities
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the Compost Resource Page