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March 14, 2016
https://ansci.osu.edu/newsletter/student-newsletter/march-14-2016
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Your Home, Where Giant Buffalo Once Roamed (for the Week of Sept. 2, 2007)
they live? Where'd they go? A.: They lived in North America (and, in some cases, in other places, ... tiger). Plus big honkin' elephant cousins such as the woolly mammoth and American mastodon. All in ... American megafauna, all of them too big to fit in a Prius or at least unlikely to try, include the stag ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Someone Cut the Grass (for the Week of May 20, 2007)
volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. In particular, because of a VOC that goes by a cool-to-say name. ... say scientists in Australia. These VOCs vaporize ("VAY-puh-rize"; turn into gas) quickly. ... They spread in the air. They go up your nose. Your brain takes a whiff and says, "Who cut the ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Locking Deer Antlers (for the Week of Nov. 4, 2007)
fight, which they do at this time of year, in fall. They fight to try to win females, or does ... animals starve to death." Gik. Why? "The bucks do not have as much strength in their backward ... yanks as they have in their forward thrusts, (so) they sometimes cannot unlock themselves," says ...
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FSR Drainage Field Day Combines Conservation with Profit
a three-day event showcasing the latest in cutting edge field drainage technology, combining improved ... grain storage area adjacent to land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). The ... left in the soil profile the crop did not use, which is eventually released as nitrogen gas. ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Again with the Recycled Pencils (for the Week of Sept. 28, 2008)
regular pencils. You hold them the same. You write with them the same. I have one here in my hands. ... black lines in it. Neat. That's all I have to say about pencils. Pointy-headedly, Twig P.S. ... come painted in other colors besides green, of course. And the graphite/lead in them comes in other ...
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About the SRI
INTRODUCTION Social Responsibility: Balancing People, Profit, and Planet From their roots in the ... SRI builds on the public service mission and vision embodied in the original land-grant legislation of ... 1862. Our longstanding commitment to public education and research was redefined in the early 1990s when ...
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Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Bee Good! But Why? (for the Week of June 3, 2007)
types live and nest alone, not in hives with thousands of others. And scientists call them pollen bees ... in the end, to new plants, too. And that's how native bees help us (as do honeybees). That is, ... this: A scientist in Texas said native bees might be 100 times better at pollinating than honeybees are. ...
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Manure Covers Could Play Role in Mitigating Global Warming
more harmful to the environment in terms of global warming effects than carbon dioxide. The collected ... used as a biogas. In addition, manure covers capture ammonia, increasing the value of manure used as ... quantifiable information for farmers is still a work in progress. Zhao and her colleagues are leading ...
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Internet Resources
https://farmoffice.osu.edu/our-library/internet-resources
Students U. of Arkansas Graduate Program in Agricultural Law U. of Colorado Center for Natural Resources, ...