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Warum es für Pflanzen gut sein kann auf Sex zu verzichten

Sexuelle Fortpflanzung ist die dominante Reproduktionsform im Tier- und Pflanzenreich. Trotzdem gibt es Arten, die sich teilweise oder ausschließlich asexuell vermehren. Überraschenderweise sind diese asexuellen Arten oft weiter verbreitet als ihre nächsten sexuellen Verwandten. (more…)

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A composer, a president, and a dean share in conversation about creativity and expression

While working on a new piece, composer John Adams sometimes has to experience a deep sense of failure before his ideas really start to flow.

“You can win every prize in the book … but when you are alone with yourself in that room and what you are doing is not even worthy of a five-year-old — you can’t imagine how humiliating that is,” he told an audience in Sprague Memorial Hall on Oct. 16. “You have to get to that level of abject humility to finally get to point of being receptive, then ideas come. Usually when they come they’re dressed in extremely shabby clothes. You just have to go with it.” (more…)

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