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Organic Gardening - General Notes On Organic Horticulture Organic Gardening Systems ... Organic horticulture expects to minimize the risk of insects, fungi, and diseases development with the help of maintaining the high quality of the soil... Nonetheless, sometimes it is still necessary to use insecticidal soaps and sprays, pheromone traps, or other pest-control means, created especially for organic farmers....

Super-light Crystals For Clean Energy? ... These crystals were designed by a team led by Omar Yaghi, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and director of the Center for Reticular Chemistry at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute. The image below shows the crystal structure of COF-108...

What Are Organic Foods? ... In the fields the farmers are nor allowed to use any of the insecticides, pesticides, fungicides or for that matter any modern day chemical on their plants. No use of human waste or sewage is allowed...

Is Organic Food & Organic Farming The Future? ... Here are some of the main features of organic farming: • Organic farming severely restricts the use of artificial chemical fertilisers and pesticides....

What Are The Benefits Of Buying Organic Food? ... Also, next time you are shopping for a healthier meal at your local trusted greenery, remember to look for the USDA organic seal of approval...

Plastic Organic Transistors ... In "Plastic Chips: New materials boost organic electronics," Science News writes that researchers at Northwestern University and Lucent Technologies have developed "a new class of organic semiconductor materials that could hasten the arrival of what could be the electronics revolution's next big wave." Until recently, the fabrication of plastic electronics has been limited by the number of molecular building blocks suitable for making semiconducting polymers...

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,—muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely framed,
That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given moment in the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)