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  1. Health & Medicine

    Thinking blurs when blood sugar strays

    Blood sugar concentrations that are too high or too low can impair thinking and, in the case of low blood sugar, driving ability.

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    This concerns the story discussing the ability of flowers to protect their reproductive parts by closing up during a rain storm. I recently observed what may be other mechanisms to achieve the same end in flowers that can’t close up. As a storm approaches, Queen Anne’s lace dips its flat umbels to a vertical position […]

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  3. Shut up! A thunderstorm’s on the way

    The narrow-leafed gentian, a mountain blossom, is the first flower shown to close when a thunderstorm apporaches.