Phytochromes.

Pr: 650-670 nm; Pfr: 705-740 nm.

Activated (Pr to Pfr) by:

1) Absorption of red light

Deactivated (Pfr to Pr) by:

1) Absorption of far-red light

2) Some nono-photoinduced reaction, slowly (Li et al., 2011)

3) Warmer temperatures (Halliday & Davis, 2016)

Shade avoidance syndrome (SAS)

Includes:

1) Upward bending of leaf petiole (the ( Read more... )

I just realized that posts now have links to FB and Twitter. Those platforms were just babies last time I used LJ. Baaaaaayyyyyybeeeeees. 

Nobody's posted here for a long time. Maybe I should start using LJ again. We call our posts on FB and Twitter "Yelling into the void," but people see that. Not really a void. LJ though. You could have an audience, but you probably don't. Not exactly a void---more of a ghost town. 

Why sentiment? What is it about remembering that induces knotting in the chest and soreness in the throat? Today I listened to David Darling, whose emotionally provocative cello-playing I enjoyed while studying at Cleveland State.

Seated at a table in the cold, concrete interior of the old student union center, the plastic, silver-colored mp3-cd ( Read more... )

From the "Vacay Wave" website:

What is Vacay Wave?

The better question is what is vacay is

This is RAD!! Pascal's wager reconsidered (and shown to be ridiculous) Cedric, I'll bet you'll be interested in this.

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I got this email today from the Association of Psychological Science ( Read more... )

The Problem with My Poetry
Is that my words lack focus
They meander pointlessly
What begins as a quirky idea
Ends in a procrustean ordeal
I chop lines
I stretch semantics
And I pretend to be a good poet
Inviting trains of thought to collide

Since I have a rather robust music collection now, I've started making music mixes. I've made three of them. The first two are mostly downtempo, dark electronic music of various genres. The third mix is pure melodic trance; every single song is a bombshell of a track, with one exception (that is still pretty good) that was thrown in for fun ( Read more... )

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