If spring days will be arriving soon, you do not need to wait until the end of winter to prepare your garden. You can start doing all the basic things right now even when it’s cold. Preparing the soil for spring planting The first thing to do is to start tilling or turning the soil, ...
When we speak of pillows, we usually think of something soft on which we rest our heads. However, Chinese people in ancient times would often sleep on ceramic pillows, which were hard as a rock. During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), these ceramic pillows were at the peak of their popularity. Ceramic pillows The trend of ...
With fires consuming a significant portion of Australia’s plant and animal life, the government acted swiftly to protect a very unique species of plants. The plants, called “Wollemi pines,” but popularly known as “dinosaur trees,” have been on the planet for millions of years. The trees are located in Wollemi National Park. Saving the dinosaur ...
Ecological conservation is one of the most important subjects right now. Fires in the Amazon, the bushfires in Australia, the rapid loss of glaciers, and the rising bouts of droughts have all made conservation of the environment a priority for the world. But most of the time, talks on conservation fail to take into account ...
Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, is the grandest festival in Taiwan. Shopping at the bazaars in Taiwan in the run-up to the Lunar New Year’s Eve is, therefore, something indispensable for almost every household. To celebrate the Year of the Rat and facilitate the general public to ...
Despite the prominent health threat posed by fine particulate pollution, especially in urban areas, fundamental aspects of its formation and evolution continue to elude scientists. This is true especially for the organic fraction of fine particles (also called aerosol), much of which forms as organic gases are oxidized by the atmosphere. Computer models under-predict this ...
A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered in China and described by American and Chinese authors in the journal The Anatomical Record. The one-of-a-kind specimen offers a window into what the Earth was like 120 million years ago. The fossil preserves feathers and bones that provide new information about how dinosaurs grew and ...
Nearly 100 people who practice Falun Gong in China were confirmed to have been killed by the communist authorities last year, according to a report. “Ninety-six Falun Gong practitioners in China were confirmed to have been persecuted to death for their faith in 2019, bringing the total confirmed death toll to 4,363 over the past 20 years ...
Located at Zhuolan (卓蘭) in central Taiwan’s Miaoli County (苗栗縣), the Hualu Flower Home Leisure Farm (花露休閒農場) is famous and it’s the largest flower leisure farm on the island. Covering an area of 3.2 hectares (7.9 acres), this organic flower leisure farm features beautiful gardens, cozy restaurants and cafés, a unique aroma boutique, and a nice ...
The discovery also points to food being shared and the use of wooden digging sticks to extract plants from the ground by early modern humans. Professor Lyn Wadley, a scientist from the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Wits ESI), said: “The inhabitants of the Border Cave in the ...
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