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’s resolution for humans. Productivity in plants means photosynthesis, respiration, and foraging/harvesting air and soil resources to grow and blossom. For scientists, it’s measured in experiments done, data analyzed, […]
Food: Delicious Science connects food, science, and people compellingly. The stories is presents are a good resource for instructors and those looking for ways to deepen curiosity about food and plants. It may also inspire reflections about what we eat and where our food comes from. And some of the experiments they do in the […]
What does it mean to be a Science Communicator? What tips can you pick up from others? Ian Street has been finding out at this year's Sci Comm Camp.
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
How can you make the process of fact-checking easier, so you know what you're saying is accurate? Ian Street finds a useful resource.
Orchids top the list for most traded, and endangered, plant families. This is according to the new Kew Gardens State of The World’s Plants report (SOTWP) released on May 18, 2017. The Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) of Wild Fauna and Flora sets the rules and guidelines for traded plants. 26,567 orchids […]
One of my favorite podcasts is ‘No Such Thing as a Fish‘ (NSTaaF) from the QI elves (writers). Each week, the four co-hosts bring a fact they present to the others and discuss. In Episode 167, “No Such Thing as Milk From a Yak“, two of the four segments were devoted to botanical subjects. One […]
The publisher of The Annals of Botany Company journals Annals of Botany and AoB Plants, Oxford University Press, has many titles about plants and plant science to further explore the fascinating world of plants. Here is a curated list of some of them in observation of Fascination of Plants Day 2017: Flora of Middle Earth Walter […]
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What did Darwin think was his most satisfying scientific work? It might not be what you thought.
What do we mean by intelligent? Could we always recognise intelligence if it was in front of us? One author thinks we might have been overlooking one intelligent group of beings.
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