Douglas

Stephen Douglas

Melvyn Douglas,

Brian Douglas.

Casting Kirk Douglas.

Surgeon Douglas Dorner says

This is from Douglas Martin.

I'm at Glendale and Douglas.

Douglas Adams is on the right.

And that's the end of the quote from Douglas.

Next one's Douglas or Debbie, depending on what it is.

Admiral Douglas is asking you to approve the decommission protocols.

This a 1923 wooden tugboat, made completely out of Douglas fir.

The Eastern Hemlock tree has often been described as the Redwood of the East.

How do you do, my name is Douglas. Nice to meet you.

There's Douglas Adams, magnificent picture from his book, Last Chance to See.

Mary Douglas asked in an essay on poverty written 35 years ago.

Burt Shlubb and Douglas Klump... two anydirtyjobthereis thugs with delusions of eloquence.

In the 1950s, a small organism appeared in Richmond, Virginia, called the Hemlock woolly adelgid.

The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval rainforest east of the Mississippi River.

It made a trans species jump out of some other organism in Asia, where it was living on Hemlock trees in Asia.

If you don't believe me, I would encourage you to read this book by Douglas Hofstadter called Godel, Escher, Bach.

When it moved into its new host, the Eastern Hemlock tree, it escaped its predators, and the new tree had no resistance to it.

And it was also inspired by this quote from Douglas Adams, and the situation is from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Well, the Supreme Court considered this 100 years tradition and said, in an opinion written by Justice Douglas, that the Causbys must lose.

I've come across in this research of how minds interpenetrate was written by a great theorist and scientist named Douglas Hofstadter at the University of Indiana.

And in the last two to three summers, these invasive organisms, this kind of Ebola of the trees, as it were, has swept through the primeval Hemlock forest of the east, and has absolutely wiped it out.

We have now discovered that there is a multi directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.

And at this point I need to acknowledge the remarkable taboo against speaking ill of religion, and I'm going to do so in the words of the late Douglas Adams, a dear friend who, if he never came to TED, certainly should have been invited.

And what we're seeing is not just the potential death of the Eastern Hemlock species that is to say, its extinction from nature due to this invading parasite but we're also seeing the death of an incredibly complex ecosystem for which these trees are merely the substrate for the aerial labyrinth of the sky that exists in their crowns.