Word of the Day: 'phytoremediation'

(sdpb.org)

Again with class stuff. On our field trip with my Environmental Biology class to the land fill, our guide pointed out some trees bordering the property and said they were Cottonwood trees, which absorb toxins from the ground. Once the trees have reached capacity for the toxins, the land fill cuts them down and uses them like they would any other wood. Awesome.

Other plants known to take specific toxins out of the ground through phytoremediation:
clover - motor oil
mustard plants - lead
ferns - arsenic
alpine herbs - zinc

Randos

(9cherries.com)

A beard cap!

Also, word/phrase of the day "Brezhnevian" - bureaucratic (i think), for Leonid Brezhnev
who was General Secretary of the USSR under Stalin

Question: chauvinism

So, chauvinist is the male equivalent of feminist? Well, not really, actually. But that's how the word is used. Chauvinism is any kind of irrational loyalty to an idea or nation. Weird.

Two of my friends, Jeff and Lauren, have read the book Female Chauvinist Pigs, they loved it.

Actually, the male equivalent of feminism is masculism or masculinism. Word of the day.