Ask a financial expert how people can save money and you’re likely to hear the phrase “pay yourself first.” This means immediately setting aside money, when you earn it, rather than waiting to see if anything is left at the end of the month. With PYF, savings gets top priority in your budget, like rent or a loan payment… By Dr. Barbara O’Neill, CFP and Financial Resources Management Specialist for Rutgers University.
Archives for February 2016
Prehistoric Flower Perfectly Preserved In Amber Is Older Than Love Itself
A day too late for Valentine’s Day, researchers from Oregon State University and Rutgers University announced that they’ve discovered a tiny bouquet of perfectly preserved flowers that pre-date even love itself… The flowers in the amber were identifi…
Beautiful amber fossil flower reveals plant history of New World
This perfectly preserved prehistoric flower embedded in amber is thought to be a long-lost relative of modern plants including sunflowers, coffee, peppers, potatoes and mint. Its discovery in a mine in the Dominican Republic represents the first evidence that this major group of plants – the asterids – comprising some 80,000 species, had reached the New World by between 15 and 45 million years ago, the estimated age of the fossil amber. “It’s the first example of an asterid in the New World,” says Lena Struwe of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. “It tells us the plants were there in the Mid-Tertiary, 20 to 40 million years ago. It also tells us that these plants were very similar to their modern day relatives, and allowed us to give our discovery a species name – Strychnos electri.”
15 Million-Year-Old Flower Found ‘Perfectly Preserved’ in Amber
Researchers have discovered a new flower species that has been “perfectly preserved” in amber, much like in the dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park… Rutgers botany professor Lena Struwe named the species Strychnos electri after the Greek word for amber. “Strychnos electri has likely been extinct for a long time,” she said in a statement. “But many new species living and, unfortunately, soon-to-be-extinct species are discovered by scientists every year.”
Fossilised flower is beautiful, deadly and new to science
It is beautiful, deadly and new to science. And if that is not enough, it has been fossilised in amber for perhaps 30 million years… “The specimens are beautiful, perfectly preserved fossil flowers, which at one point in time were borne by plants that lived in a steamy tropical forest with both large and small trees, climbing vines, grasses and other vegetation,” said George Poinar, of Oregon State University, who with Lena Struwe of Rutgers University, reports in Nature Plants on evolution’s trophy from a distant past. The asterid family embraces an estimated 80,000 species, and one genus within the family is inherently toxic.
Rutgers scientist-sleuth finds ancient plant locked in amber
More than 15 million years ago, the delicate flowers fell to the floor of a muggy, tropical forest, and somehow did not rot and wither away. Instead, they were trapped in sticky globs of tree resin, hardened into amber, and carried on the high seas to …
Washington Post’s Food Columnist Goes to Bat for Monsanto – Again
A few months ago, I raised concerns about Washington Post food columnist Tamar Haspel after she admitted taking money from agribusiness interest groups that she covers… Haspel devotes seven paragraphs of her column to explaining and pondering the 7 p…
Cape residents still scrubbing away smelly mud from Jonas
Mike Monichetti said he power-washed the decks behind his Sea Isle City seafood restaurant three times after Winter Storm Jonas and still had clumps of mud sticking to the wood… “Mud is a sign it was a backbay flooding event,” said Michael Kennish, a research professor with the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. “If you’re living on the bayside, clay and mud are transported all over the streets and houses during these storms. If sand is left behind, it’s a sign the flooding came from the ocean,” Kennish said. Sand, which is silicon dioxide, or quartz, does not have adhesive properties. “You can wash it off,” he said. “It won’t stick.”
Fishing seminars figure prominently into Expo schedule
What boat show is complete without ‘how to’ seminars from the tops in the industry? This year’s New Jersey Boat Sale & Expo at the New Jersey Convention & Exposition Center has a full line up…Olaf Jensen, Rutgers University, presents NJ Strip…
2015 NJAES Annual Report Available for New Jersey Stakeholders
The 2015 NJAES Annual Report, produced by the Office of the Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources Robert Goodman, was unveiled on Feb. 11 at the final day of the New Jersey Agricultural Convention in Atlantic City. The report highlights the research and extension activities of the experiment station under the six broad categories […]