Playing Fair in Wheat and Cars: Japanese officials say they are blocking U.S. white wheat as a "precautionary" measure because they don't have a way to inspect for the glyphosate-resistant gene -- the same gene they've been importing and testing in soybeans for many years. This faux argument ought to be met with a U.S. trade negotiation pre-requisite that signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership cannot use the precautionary principle. In April of this year, as happens many times each year, Japanese automobile manufacturers recalled almost 3.4 million vehicles worldwide for defective air bags that reportedly can harm passengers with flying shrapnel. Since there is no way inspectors can detect all defects in imported automobiles, the pr...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
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From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.