[Red Badger]

[Dixie Yooper]

First the scientific community sells us on the fact that evolution is an on going process, then they turn around and despise it when they see it happening before their very eyes...

[Deaf Smith]

If not for these tropical vines, there would not have been any Tarzan movies. Nor the later George Of The Jungle.

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*Watch out for that tree.

[John Galt's cousin]

Is it from LACK of human activity?

Or, perhaps, it is Bush’s fault!

(/sarc)

[jtal]

Forget about that question, mine is “Why are American taxpayers on the hook for a million dollars to pay for studying vines in Panama?”

[capt. norm]

I held my breath reading it...waiting for the inevitable sentence where they blame it all on global warming.

[rockinqsranch]

People are going to read this, and believe it.

[meyer]

Where are these “American tropics”?

[from occupied ga]

more than a million dollars from the U.S. National Science Foundation

more than a million dollars from the beleaguered taxpayers of the usa that would have otherwise been spent on things that the people who actually earned the money wanted. Fixed it.

[layman]

Maybe they can figure out how to make ethanol out of it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“We are witnessing a fundamental structural change in the physical make-up of forests that will have a profound impact on the animals, human communities and businesses that depend on them for their livelihoods,”

and there is absolutely NOTHING we mere mortals can do about it.

[Liberty Valance]

One of my son's friends did a 6 month research stretch at this Smithsonion project in Panama last year. Quite a learning experience. He didn't make any money at this and in fact had to pay about $5,000 for the privilege. A pretty amazing place for a student to go.

Just one of hundreds of photos