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Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What looks like dog vomit, smells like a corpse flower, and stars in the scariest movie Stink Moody has ever seen? It's ... slime mold! Stink may be a super science geek, but even he is freaked out about having a slime mold in his very own room! These one-celled organisms are smart enough to get through mazes and to gang up on food sources. So what says they can't take over Stink's room, Stink's pets, Stink himself ... the world?" -- Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
George W. Hudler is Professor of Plant Pathology at Cornell University. In addition to teaching courses on plant disease diagnosis and management, he offers a course that has the same name as this book. It is one of the most popular undergraduate courses at Cornell, consistently attracting over three hundred students. Since 1992, he has been editor of Branching Out, a biweekly newsletter to guide tree care professionals in the northeastern United...
3) The Marigold
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Marigold melds ecofiction with body horror as it weaves disparate storylines around a crumbling condo tower, its foundation plagued by a grotesque infection, and illustrates the precarious role of community and the fragile designs that bind us together.
The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condo tower, sits a half-empty promise: a stack of scuffed rental suites and undelivered amenities that crumbles around its residents as a mysterious sludge spreads...
Author
Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras use science experiments to help a monster with a problem.
5) Act of God
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent, it's a mushroom . . . and it's sprouting from their wall. Upstairs, their landlady,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Something's rotten in Ms. Frizzle's class! It's "Accidental Science Project" day. The kids have to bring in the moldiest things they can find in the refrigerators. Everybody agrees that mold is just disgusting! But when they go on a field trip inside a rotting log, they discover that all that dead-looking stuff is actually alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to slime molds. "These unusual living things ooze over dead leaves and old wood feeding on these substances and acting as one of nature's clean-up crews. And even though a blob of slime mold has no brain, it spreads out tendrils that work as a team telling each other when they find some food"--Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From beneficial fungi that keep bacteria under control and consume dead cells to toxic molds that cause disease, our bodies are constantly navigating a fungus-filled world. And our interactions with fungi are not limited to what happens in our bodies as we interact with these microbes via our diet and as a source of medicines. In short, there exists an incredible range of interactions between humans and fungi. In this book, Nicolas Money describes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Did you know that the germiest place in school is the drinking fountain? Or that if your class hamster doesn't continuously chew, its teeth would grow through its jaw? Discover these and other 'Blecch!'-inducing facts in this cool book. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and an introduction to the author and illustrator." -- Publisher's website.
15) Fungi and molds
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
All around us, the natural world goes through cycles of growth and decay. Fungi, including molds, are crucial to these life cycles and can be both destructive and beneficial to humans. From the cultivation of mushrooms, through the molds employed to make cheeses and other food products, to water-damaged human environments where mold must be contained, this book explores these organisms that exist largely unseen all around us. This big-picture approach...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Sabías que las primeras bacterias aparecieron hace 3600 millones de años, mucho antes de que llegaren los humanos? ¿O que hay un increíble tip de bacteria tres veces más pegajosa que el pegamento? Echa un vistazo a las bacterias, los virus y otros gérmenes y microbios en tu divertido primer libro de microbiología"--back cover.
"In this fun, fact-packed science book for kids, young readers will discover the bacteria, viruses, and other...
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