• Pine cones aren’t just decoration. They’re tools trees use to survive.
    Kitchen

    Pine cones aren’t just decoration. They’re tools trees use to survive.

    You can make cute crafts like this owl from pine cones. See what other critters you can create. Try using pipe cleaners for legs and antlers. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Ann Cameron Siegal. Pine cones come in many shapes and sizes that can help you identify the kind of pine tree they fell from. Here are two different pine cones in their open and closed stages. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Ann Cameron Siegal. When an open pine cone like the one on the left is put into ice water, its scales will close as if to protect any seeds inside. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Ann Cameron Siegal. One of the…

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  • Pine cones aren’t just decoration. They’re tools trees use to survive.
    Kitchen

    Pine cones aren’t just decoration. They’re tools trees use to survive.

    Remark on this story Comment 1 of the easiest illustrations of how vegetation adapt to be certain that their species survives is uncovered in pine cones. Evergreen trees that generate cones are referred to as conifers. There are additional than 600 species of conifers — which consist of pines, firs and spruce — each and every with its have sort and dimension of cones. Species survive by reproducing. Conifers reproduce as their seeds spread, generally by wind. According to the American Conifer Modern society, pines characterize the premier team of conifers, so let us take a closer glance at pine cones, which serve as seed protectors. You might ponder why…

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  • Why These $20 Million Uptown Co-ops Aren’t Selling
    Real Estate

    Why These $20 Million Uptown Co-ops Aren’t Selling

    Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images For years, buying an apartment at 740 Park meant something. And that something was, quite simply, that you’d won. It was not a building for those on the make; it was a building for those who’d made it, the socially and financially dominant. The childhood home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (her grandfather built the place in 1929), 740 Park counted John D. Rockefeller Jr., a Chrysler heiress, and numerous financiers among its first residents. In the boom periods of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, apartments routinely fetched record prices, sometimes provoking bidding wars between billionaires. In 2000, Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman…

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