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Go to work on a potato
I didn’t do modern history at school so my impression of the industrial revolution is largely a mish-mash of pop history and some misremembered
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Does rain forest grow back? Archaeology might have the answer
Most international archaeological work in South America has concentrated on the Andes for various reasons. It’s more accessible, the ruins are more visible, there’s
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Schrödinger’s History (TIME 100)
How can you say something is historically important or not unless you observe it? What happens if you set up conditions where you intentionally cannot observe
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In search of the Platzgeist (TIME 100)
It’s easy to pin scientific credit on a person. He or she usually has a name on the key publication, but how do you credit
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The scale of science and history (TIME 100)
TIME has recently published 100 greatest places in the world. The book is a collection of sites that, the editors argue, have had the biggest impact
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A gift for the anti-Botanist
With a world full of fascinating life-forms, it’s always easy to find a gift for a botanist. There’s so many plants to choose
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The fashionably late arrival of cucumbers in Europe #bad11
You might put together a salad from what you’ve grown in your back garden, but it’s a surprisingly cosmopolitan meal. Tomatoes came from Mesoamerica
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Blog Action Day 2011: Let’s Talk About Food #bad11
Blog Action Day is an annual event that encourages bloggers to talk about a specific topic. This year the theme is Food and it seems like
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Autumn Clean
I’ve been tidying up my online presence, RSS feeds and so on for the new academic year. I’ll be moving my life sciences posts
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A new Creative Commons search for botany photos on Flickr
We changed the template we use for AoB Blog to HTML5 last week. We’re still using similar CSS, so there’s not a huge change
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Plants, Pollination and Paywalls
We put The natural history of pollination and mating in bird-pollinated Babiana (Iridaceae) live on the Annals of Botany site this week. It’s been
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Appealing Botany
As a follow up to the news about the end of the Botany degree in the UK and the discussion on Facebook, I’ve been trying