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The Peacock

“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!” wrote Charles Darwin in 1860.  Darwin, along with other naturalists of his times, had theorized that the broad diversification in bird coloration evolved as a function of sexual selection.  But the peacock took it to such extreme that…

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Plumage

Feather grows much like our hair: a meticulously constructed mass of dead protein, called beta-keratin, pushed out from a follicle in the living skin.  An analogy for feather is like a tree – its trunk, a hollow central shaft, is called a rachis, numerous branches stemmed from the rachis are called barbs, and from the…

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Oranges and Lemons of St. Clement’s

Oranges and Lemons of St. Clement’s is a traditional English nursery rhyme which references the bells of several churches within the vicinity of the City of London.  It is also a children’s singing game, in which two children place their hands together to form an arch to symbolize the arch of sanctuary while the others…

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Dance the Orange

Yonder stands the orange treeShowing off its fruits to me,Gleaming teardrops lovers shedStained by passion’s heartbreak red. Balls of agate carmine-brightHung on boughs of chrysolite,Sent a-spinning from the treesBy the mallet of the breeze. Now I kiss them, now inhale;Thus my senses I regaleWith their cheeks’ so tender bloomAnd the sweets of their perfume.- Ibn…

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