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If you grew up American, like me, then your typical idea of “Tropical Fruit” was bananas and the occasional kiwi. When I was a kid, Pineapples were something you rarely saw in a grocery store and mangos were something mentioned in movies or songs and I just assumed they didn’t exist for real and I [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food · Tagged Australia, Banana, cillian murphy, Don Ho, Durian, Flora of Indonesia, food, Fruit, Indonesia, Israel, Medicinal plants, Mexico, neighborhood food dispensaries, New Zealand, Passiflora edulis, Passion flower, Pear, Pitaya, Plant morphology, public transportation, Richard Sterling, Singapore, slough, Sugar-apple, Tropical agriculture
Before Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first man in space on April 12, 1961, a long succession of non-human astronauts had already been shot through the atmosphere in order to determine if life forms could survive spaceflight. Even after manned space missions became routine procedures, many different animals continued to be used for [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, April 9, 2010 at 1:16 am
Filed under Animals, History, Science · Tagged Animal, Animals, animals in space, Cape Canaveral, cats, doctors, Dogs, first man in space, fish, Fruit, guinea pig, guinea pigs, human astronauts, Human spaceflight, ivan ivanovich, manned space missions, monkeys, Monkeys in space, NASA, newts, Orbiting Frog Otolith, parachute recovery, pig space, plants and animals, rocket flight, skylab 3, Smithsonian, space, space experiments, space exploration, spiders, technology, Yorick, yuri gagarin
