With many thanks to Hilary - Fridays five reads
Richard Hardwick
2026_02_27
re last week's 15. The Late James Watson, Lior Pachter has a fierce critique .
And here come todays 5RF reads
Richard H.
P.S. I am trying to make 5RF read better on cell phones.
The encoding of this 5RF has a couple of tweaks
inspired by w3 schools' responsive web design.
Now I'm now looking to replace the whole CSS file.
Your suggestions of a better CSS most welcome.
NVRS-HRI-gg
1. The First Posting To Nvrs-Hri-Gg Was On 4 December 2009 At 6:10:46 PM
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Since then there have been 9,998 more.
2. April 14 Brussels; MigFoRest International Conference
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3. Born 25 June 1903, Motihari, 845401 India
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Pic credit District Administration, Motihari
4. Historic Farming Films To Be Digitised
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w.t.t. Hilary F.
5. Healthy Soils Across Europe By 2050.
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6. How Government Will Deliver Its Vision For Agriculture In England.
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7. Researchers (And Plants) Braving The Cold In Svalbard
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In plain english — click here.
8. The Tervuren Xylarium Wood Density Database
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Just down the road from here
9. The Magical Mushroom Company®
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10. Volunteer Observations Of Caliprobola Speciosa Have Tripled
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Our faithful correspondent writes «I'm not sure if this means that
numbers of the fly have tripled, or whether it's simply that more people
are recording them. If the habitat is so specialised, wouldn't it require
that to be extended to allow the insects to increase in number?»
P.S. (ed.) The New Forest Biodiversity Hub has a very pretty set of pages.
11. Honeybees Know Precisely Where They Are Going
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Version for grown-ups at science-direct.
12. Near Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
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In BBC english — click here.
w.t.t. Hilary F.
13. The Four Colour Theorem
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14. Directly Fund Life-Changing Healthcare For People Around The World.
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I came across this at Hackers News.
To read previous postings use your ifone 
or clik
in the QR pic.
Michael.Dodd
Those beelines Precise, individualized foraging flights in honeybees revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking: Current Biology are remarkable. Wonder when the saying beeline was invented.
When giving students the dgps and telling them to find a point their direction is very much not the straight line shown for the bees even though straight line is possible just by following the arrow on screen perhaps should have shown their very squiggly lines in:
Dodd, Michael (2011). Where are my quadrats? Positional accuracy in fieldwork. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2(6) pp. 576–584.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00118.x
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