The Nation of Plants, by Stefano Mancuso 2021. Other Press. Who’s in charge of the Earth? Aside from religioso-spiritual responses to this question, the mantle of this awesome responsibility appears to be have been...
In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants by Matt Candeias 2021. Mango Publishing. Having read a lot of books from a plants-and-people perspective lately, I’d forgotten the sheer joy of reading...
Amber Waves: The extraordinary biography of wheat, from wild grass to world megacrop by Catherine Zabinski 2020. The University of Chicago Press. Biographies are usually written about people. However, Catherine...
Berries by Victoria Dickenson 2020. Reaktion Books Ltd. Even though I’m a Botanist I’ve never had a great understanding of fruits and seeds. I am however, aware that the fruit botanically known as a berry has a very...
Science is one of the most important of human activities, and consequently it’s often funded by the public via their taxes. In order to inform the public of the ways their ‘tax dollars’ have been spent – as part ‘thank...
Yesterday caught me by surprise. Keyhole.co is reporting over eight hundred thousand accounts have been exposed to the #BotanyLive tag. Before we get carried away, I don’t think anyone sees everything in their...
We’ve been experimenting with what we can do with articles, and our latest experiment happened earlier this week. 7 Deadly Secrets of Carnivorous Plants is on Buzzfeed. It was a bit of a challenge, and not...
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 a famous philosophical problem. Does red really look red? This paper looks at plants from a...