Plant parables for the 21st Century
A lifestyle guide where plants take the lead instead of sitting in the background.
Tag: plant blindness
Merlin’s magnificent mushroom masterpiece
A fascinating book examines fungi not as something apart from the rest of the world, but as something intertwined with other life on the planet.
Plant blindness eradicated *
What real people think about plants
Plant blindness in smartphone identification applications – are we passing on our biases to our helpful apps?
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?
The Big Botany Challenge – promoting passion for plants in our schools!
Jonathan Mitchley on a symposium coming to Reading University in November to help fight plant blindness.
Check beneath your boots…
Raising awareness of plant blindness
Discovering Discoveries in the Garden
iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
Tree rings stop cell division in plants
This week Nigel Chaffey finds he has a vision problem that needs more than a trip to the optician.
Promoting the planet’s plants-and-people future [Or, Probably the best jobs in British Botany…]
Will a Martian save the Earth?
Plant scientists are essential to help provide solutions to three of the most important current and future threats to mankind’s existence on the planet – food security, water supply and climate change. But as universities close plant biology courses we have to ask: Where are those plant scientists to come from?