Thursday 5 October 2023

Male and Female


'After being identified as male for more than 150 years, the Fortingall Yew tree in Perthshire, Scotland, estimated to be 5,000 years old, grew a female branch in 2015, surprising botanists with its capacity to change sexes after so long.' 

.https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.tees.ac.uk/content/0410eefd-c95c-4334-aa69-04e63ec81bcd

(The Yew was seen as a protector of the soul during the journey to the Otherworld.)

llicium macranthum exposes only its male sexual organs the first time the flower opens. Afterwards, only the female sexual organs are accessiblej

“Gender is so varied in nature — what’s natural is that there is lots of diversity,” says Patrick Featherstone...


The Schizophyllum commune fungus can have more than 23,000 sexual identities

"Only about 5 per cent of [flowering] plants reproduce in the male and female way that we’ve been taught,” says Featherstone. 

What Linneaus didn’t expect was that some species can be both monoecious, where the plant bears both male and female flowers, and dioecious, where the plant bears either male or female flowers.

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4 Comments:

At 6 October 2023 at 00:31 , Blogger Anon said...

https://gab.com/Aangirfan/posts/111186894280622164

 
At 6 October 2023 at 00:33 , Blogger Anon said...

Aangirfan
@Aangirfan

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INTRIGUING ZOE COHEN


Just Stop Oil spokeswoman Zoe Cohen breaks down on TV

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12598479/Critics-mock-Just-Stop-Oil-spokeswoman-eco-clowns-Les-Miserables-ruining-couples-80th-birthday.html


“Cohen said that she took action to help prevent a climate-induced disaster that would result in ‘100 holocausts’ …”

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/national/23282294.climate-protesters-spared-jail-smashing-barclays-windows/


“As someone of Jewish origin, this feels like early 1930s Germany where all sorts of repressive things are happening and most people don’t have a clue about it … For me, it didn’t feel like an accident that we were sentenced on Holocaust Memorial Day.”

https://realsustainability.org/interview-with-barclays-7s-zoe-cohen/


“… Zoe Cohen said she came from a Jewish family that escaped fascism, which partly inspired her climate activism. She told the court: ‘I am of Jewish origin. Today [Friday] is Holocaust Memorial Day. I can imagine what it must be like to be a teenager today and know what awaits’ …”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/27/climate-activists-guilty-smashing-barclays-hq-windows-escape-jail


“Zoe Cohen, who has Jewish heritage, claimed oil and gas executives were complicit in ‘genocide’ … ‘Forgive me for saying this, but - and I say this very sincerely - but it’s like we’re all trapped in a giant gas chamber and we know every single ton of carbon dioxide makes this worse,’ Cohen said …”

https://www.thejc.com/news/news/just-stop-oil-spokeswoman-claims-all-humans-are-in-a-%27giant-gas-chamber%27-4wvhav2B3A9OPTX7lVq0lX


“I also feel very scared as someone Jewish heritage. It's just like, it just makes me feel even more scared that this, I hardly recognize the country I've been born into.”

https://rebeljustice.buzzsprout.com/1893705/11462273

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At 6 October 2023 at 02:13 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12601271/Depraved-former-Radio-1-DJ-Chris-Denning-81-dies-prison-serving-13-years-sex-offences-against-boys-young-eight.html

 
At 6 October 2023 at 13:41 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is it just me…….have we all finally acquiesced to a ruling group as somehow more audible and entitled than the others?

 

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