"The ability to recognize and favour kin is common in animals, but this is the first time it has been shown in plants" said Susan Dudley, associate professor of biology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. "When plants share their pots, they get competitive and start growing more roots, which allows them to grab water and mineral nutrients before their neighbours get them. It appears, though, that they only do this when sharing a pot with unrelated plants; when they share a pot with family they don't increase their root growth.

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Twelve

The five colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the taste.
Racing and hunting madden the mind.
Precious things lead one astray.

Therefore the sage is guided by what he feels and not by what he sees.
He lets go of that and chooses this. Daily TAO.com

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Over the weekend a new sunspot emerged and "it is a beauty,"
says Gianluca Valentini of Rimini, Italy, who photographed the active region this morning.

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Part 1

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Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd from northern Iraq, also said Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq, where the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has bases and launches attacks on Turkish forces.

W.House denies debating troop withdrawal

CON-fusing people...

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Let us get this amount of people on July 17, Fire The Grid, see in other postings!

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Another AI experience, watch this closely ...

Infants learn how to move by recognizing which movements and positions cause them physical discomfort and learning to avoid them. Computer science Professor Oussama Khatib and his research group at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are using the same principle to endow robots with the ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously and smoothly.

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Reid: 'It's time to change course' in Iraq

"We're now in the fifth year of ground combat operations in Iraq and this deck of cards is coming crashing down," he said.

THINK !

Who Will Be Blamed For the Aftermath if US Retreats From Iraq?

So where's the little Baghdad going to be? Or the little Karbala or the little Fallujah? And do we think Americans are just going to stand by and watch a genocide play out?

The Whole World Watched ... and is still watching ...

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