Plants & People
Ancient botany for the 21st century
Vergil’s Green Thoughts: Plants, Humans, and the Divine by Rebecca Armstrong, 2019. Oxford University Press. When I first heard about Vergil’s Green Thoughts by
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Grow your own Martian salad
A Martian diet might aid your health on Earth (but there are probably better interventions you should try first)
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Tackling plant blindness: Botany by stealth…
School lessons devoted to plants may be off-putting to those students who are already plant-averse. So, why not smuggle bits of plant information into lessons on topics as diverse as Geography, History, Art & Design, and Computing to show how relevant plants are?
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የእንሰት ተክል በኢትዮጲያ፡ በአግባቡ ያልተጠና አካባቢያዊ ተጽእኖዎችን የሚቋቋም በስታርች የበለጸገ ሰብል
መግቢያ፡ እንሰት (በሳይንሳዊ አጠራሩ ኢንሰቴ ቬንትሪኮሰም፤ የሙሳሴ ቤተሰብ) በአፍሪካ የሚገኝና በዚህ ወቅት ከ20 ሚሊዮን በላይ ለሚሆኑ የኢትዮጲያ ዜጎች በዋና የምግብ ሰብልነት እያገለገለ ያለ ተክል ነዉ፡፡ የዱር
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Presenting a poster at a conference?
Worry no more. Mike Morrison has got your academic poster design.
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A small dose of plant science and Focus with Forest.app
Plants on Earth being productive at some point in their life cycles is critical for their – and our lives. Productivity is also a common new year’
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Go Fungal!
It’s a belated present, the PDF of the handout we’ve been using on stands for Botany One.
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Dark soils are the shadow of hidden agriculture
Stains left in the soil from past farmers, and the plants they cultivated, are helping illuminate prehistoric inhabitants of the Amazon.
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What is Open Access and why does it matter?
This week we’re posting about papers from AoB PLANTS, an open access journal for plant science, and launching in silico Plants, another open access journal
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Headliner Video, a podcast tool that could help botanists produce video
One of the problems botanists have creating social video is a lot of the time the subject is static. Headliner Video is a tool that helps with that problem.
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Contemporary Citation Classics – Subjects and Predictions
Philip White takes a peek into the future. What papers are likely to become ‘citation classics’?
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Can Trees Track the Air that You Breathe?
A new paper in PLOS One says trees outside your house can act as sentinels tracking the concentrations of potentially hazardous chemicals in your home’s air.