Botanical Wednesday: It's looking at me!

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Occasionally, I run across a fractal in nature that is so perfectly formed, that the repeating, scaling patterns are actually 3-D. In these cases, it is difficult to do the image justice by creating a similar fractal on a 2-D surface. I encountered this in today's fractal. The Julia set, colored…
This is the first of 16 student posts, guest-authored by Riva Ben-Ezra. Acai fruit comes from the Brazilian Amazon forests and is one of the main dietary staples of the native population.  It has been touted as having potent antioxidant properties 1,2 as well as being a stimulant for weight loss3,…
There are 35 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…