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The last word

Plants are fueled by a simple sugar that results from a magic combination of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide: glucose. To borrow from Dylan Thomas, glucose is “the force that through the green fuse...

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Tropes are like jewels — or — How to put similes and metaphors to work for you

Want to wake up your readers? Poke them with a good trope. (I just poked you with one. Are you more awake now?) Tropes, aka similes and metaphors, are handy devices that compare one thing to another....

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Get Your But Out of There

But. However. Although. Do you ever use these words without contradicting anything? Sometimes I do, but I’ve come to see those instances as false buts. Let me try that again. “But. However. Although....

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