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What help do new bloggers need?
What should go into a guide to science blogging?
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Bad analogies
I’ve been sent a paper today to see if we can put out a press release for it. It’s fascinating and it touches on
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Tree Physiology shines a light on the understorey
Trees dominate forests, but not all the plants there are trees. They can flourish in clearings, but what about the places in shadow?
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Natural Colour? How are the colours of New England in the fall changing?
New England is known for the colours of the trees in autumn. The leaves turn a striking red. However, research in PLOS One suggests that global
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Heavy Metal Plant LIVES ON ROCK
If plants did rock out at concerts then the one above would definitely be Bornmuellera to be wild. Some plants like to be in sunlight in
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MEME ALL THE THINGS!
claimtoken-5131d8ef1e500 “That famous quote: analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog – nobody laughs and the frog dies. Absolutely true, but you still learn a lot
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Kew launches its breathing planet campaign
I wonder if the word Garden is a hinderance. Kew is the plant equivalent of a zoo, yet we use the same word for it as
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My enemy’s enemy…?
Recently a lot of comments on the Bowman vs. Monsanto court case have been in my social media streams. If you’ve not heard about this,
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Ethnobotanical Treasures of the Dominican Republic
A quick post to highlight a new video up from Ina Vandebroek of New York Botanical Garden. This is about how a botella, a mix of
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Something to Chew On by Mike Gibney
Do blogs sell books? They’ve sold at least one. I picked up Something to Chew On by Mike Gibney after reading his weblog Gibney on
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How does a plant get a taste for meat?
One of the reasons carnivorous plants are so popular has to be their weirdness. They turn a lot of assumptions about plants upside down. But how
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Looking pretty leads to female sexual success, not so good for males
Get the paper FREE If you’re a plant who wants to reproduce should you have more flowers? I thought the answer might simply be a