Alpine

Alpine flowers are abundant there.

THAT MACHlNE, FLORA.

I KNOW IT'S LATE, FLORA! LOOK, YOU STAY RlGHT HERE, FLORA.

FLORA, GO AWAY! FlVE HOURS.

OH. OH, FLORA, WOULD YOU,

WHAT TlME IS IT, FLORA?

I like Alpine skiing better than Nordic skiing.

These changes in the alpine world are accelerating.

I I SWEAR TO YOU, FLORA,

IT'S TRYlNG TO GET ME, FLORA!

FLORA, WlLL YOU KlNDLY SHUT YOUR MOUTH?

IT IT'S NOT EVEN A MACHlNE, FLORA.

IT TOOK MY LAST SlLVER DOLLAR, FLORA.

Think about cars, food, houses, fauna, flora.

He stood dazedly watching the beauty of the Alpine dawn.

HOWEVER, THlS IS YOUR VACATlON, FLORA. YOU WON IT.

IF THERE'S ONE THlNG I KNOW, FLORA, IT'S MORALlTY.

I WANT MY DOLLAR! I WANT MY DOLLAR! (Flora) DARLlNG?

BUT NOW YOU'RE SPENDlNG MONEY. AND NOT EVEN SPENDlNG IT, FLORA.

SO, YOU GO BACK TO SLEEP, FLORA. FRANKLlN, IT'S TERRlBLY LATE.

FLAVOR. THlS IS THE KlND OF FLAVOR I CAN DO WlTHOUT, FLORA.

I'M GOlNG BACK TO THE ROOM, FLORA. HERE YOU ARE, OLD BOY.

THlS IS NOT THE KlND OF MONEY I LlKE TO KEEP, FLORA.

AND FEED IT BACK INTO THE MACHlNE, FLORA, AND GET RlD OF IT.

How can we investigate this flora of viruses that surround us, and aid medicine?

In the world of the arctic and alpine environments, where the ice is, it's real and it's present.

I HATE A SHREW, FLORA! I HATE A WOMAN WHO STANDS IN BACK OF YOU

And for this reason, many people eat probiotic yogurt so they can promote a healthy gut flora.

And in the case of the flora in our gut, these cells may not even be human.

This red dot marks the Great Basin of North America, and I'm involved with an alpine biodiversity project there with some collaborators.

So here's a food web, or a map of feeding links between species that live in Alpine Lakes in the mountains of California.

He's had our two sailors so busy... chasing around the woods after flora and fauna... that we haven't seen them for three days.

Purpose so that we start them for agriculture, for medicine, for whatever, and for science, for the study of the flora and the change of the forest.

These microbes, which are primarily bacteria, but also viruses and protozoa, they are part of our normal flora and they make up what is called the commensal microbiome.

Because if the waiter drops his tray on his way over to the table, no value is generated at all, although a lot of work has gone into getting the Latte Macchiato from the Alpine slopes to the table.

How, in a flora of 80,000 species of vascular plants, do these people find these two morphologically unrelated plants that when combined in this way, created a kind of biochemical version of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts?