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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
Paul Taylor’s term for how humans exploit other living things domesticating animals, force-feeding livestock, etc.
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According to one source, a vertebrate whose body is covered with feathers. For more on this, see Pedanticism.
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A diarrhea-producing intestinal bacterium that causes typhus and poisons raw milk, eggs, meat, and poultry.
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The sticky tip of a pistil. Also: the pigment clusters that serve photosynthetic microbes as a light sensor.
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A plant that likes saline soil (cordgrass, rushes, pickleweed). Most plants need less salty soil to grow in.
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Proteins that augment (catalyze) and manage chemical reactions in cells by lowering the activation energy.
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An epiphyte (a plant that grows on another plant) that eventually extends its own roots into the ground.
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Tiny organisms living in the atmosphere. Certain small seeds, bacteria, and spores are examples.
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La concentración de sales disueltas en agua, medido en partes por mil. Agua de mar un promedio de 34 ppt.
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Una medición de norte a sur de posición sobre la tierra, desde el Ecuador a 0° para el Polo Norte o polo sur a 90°. Una línea de este a oeste conecta lugares de la misma latitud es un paralelo. Latitud se mide en grados, minutos y segundos. Véase longitud.
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