Five reads - plus the new WhatsApp group

[Richard Hardwick]

                                        Bruxelles
                                        2026_06_19


         The new WhatsApp group « NVRS - HRI - gg » already has a dozen members!
     Write me r...@skynet.be if you would like to join the group.
     Or try https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gt0WCc9oMxH1rZ6OLoJmUL
     The aim is to ensure that contacts between NVRS-HRI oldies may continue after
     Five Reads Friday has disappeared.


     And here come todays 5RF reads


     Richard H.

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                    NVRS-HRI-gg

1. 16-22 June
    Pourquoi Le Manneken-Pis A Cessé De Faire Pipi ….
        
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2. 25 June
    An Online Conference Focusing On Different Aspects Of Plant Health
        
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3. 1 To 3 July
    Global Conference On Smart Farming In Rome, Italy
        
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4. 11 To 13 September
    National Bat Conference, University Of Warwick
        
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5. Data Tools Reshape Crop Research
        
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             In science-speak — click here.



6. AI Could Help Win ‘Race Against Extinction’ Of Vital Plants
        
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             With thanks to Hilary F.
    Russula neopascua ‘fishy’ toadstool fungi from the High Rockies of Colorado and
    Montana and another of Kew’s ‘top 10 new species of 2024’.
    Photograph: Chance Noffsinger



7. Kew Botanic Gardens Has Digitized All 7 Million Specimens
        
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              Use your ORCID number to access



8. Degradable Sensors Reveal Hidden Soil Secrets
        
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             In science-speak — click here.



9. What To Do With Household "Organic" Waste
        
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10. A Good Piece On Cyanobacteria
        
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11. Eat More (Flavanol-Rich) Fruit
        
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             Version in science speak.



12. Butter Or Marg.?
        
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              Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images



13. Leibniz Institute On Aging
    Why Longer Lives Bring More Age-Related Disease
        
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14. OpenStreetMap Has Lots(± 82) Of Specialist Maps
        
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15. The Aquarium In …
    … Guess Where
        
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              Nothing like that when I was there back in the 1980's
                w.t.t. Atlas Obscura.



16. Oscilloscope, Multimeter, Logic Analyzer, … For Your Ifone
        
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17. Morphogenetic Memory In Deer And Flatworms
        
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18. Shaving A Yak ( 박성범 )
        (Story of my life)
        
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