9 Best Articles in 2022
Smithsonian Magazine
Harriet Tubman Is Famous for Being an Abolitionist and Political Activist, but She Was Also a Naturalist
Smithsonian Magazine
8 min read · Mar 10th · The Underground Railroad conductor's understanding of botany, wildlife biology, geography and astronomy allowed her to guide herself and others to safety
Atlas Obscura
A Quiet Revolution in Botany: Plants Form Memories
Atlas Obscura
~16 min read · From 2017 · A slow but dramatic change in the study of the world's other great kingdom.
Reader View · Shared by 40, including Howard Getson, Vikram Dutt, John Hagel
Brain Pickings
Perfect Flowers: Adventures in Nature’s Nonbinary Botany, with a Side of Emily Dickinson
Brain Pickings
4 min read · 2021-07-03 · Rewilding the landscape of possibility for the poetry of being.
Reader View · Shared by 32, including Charles Duhigg, Jane
Quartz
A debate over plant consciousness is forcing us to confront the limitations of the human mind
Quartz
5 min read · From 2018 · Scientists and philosophers can't agree on what it means to be conscious. But everyone admits plants are incredibly complex.
Reader View · Shared by 45, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Henning von Vogelsang, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Jesse Burkunk, Thomas Power
Guardian Environment
Food for thought? French bean plants show signs of intent, say scientists
Guardian Environment
3 min read · 2021-01-08 · Many botanists dispute idea of plant sentience, but study of climbing beans sows seed of doubt
Reader View · Shared by 42, including Lynn Cherny, Anita Leirfall, Perry Marshall, Guy Longworth, Liv 😷, Emily Thomas, Jason Silva
BBC Breaking News
Mystery 19th Century botanist tracked down following appeal
BBC Breaking News
3 min read · 2021-07-17 · Pressed flowers and a poem found inside a centuries-old botany book sparked a quest to find the owner.
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Esther Schindler, Botany One, Jennifer Ouellette
Brain Pickings
A Curious Herbal: Gorgeous Illustrations from Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-Century Encyclopedia of Medicinal Botany
Brain Pickings
5 min read · From 2020 · Time-travel to the dawn of modern medical science via the stunning art of a self-taught woman illustrator and botanist.
Reader View · Shared by 19, including Jennifer Ouellette, Larry G. Maguire 🇺🇦, Charles Duhigg, Mathew Ingram
Atlas Obscura
A Quiet Revolution in Botany: Plants Form Memories
Atlas Obscura
~14 min read · From 2019 · Inside a quiet revolution in the study of the world’s other great kingdom.
Reader View · Shared by 17, including K. Williams
e360.yale.edu
Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods From Their Massive Stumps
e360.yale.edu
2 min read · From 2018 · A cloned sapling of an ancient redwood tree.
Reader View · Shared by 24, including Jason Fried, Hilary Mason, Liv 😷
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The Guardian
Nut of note: 70% of world's macadamia come from single Australian tree
The Guardian
2 min read · From 2019 · New research shows a single 19th century tree in southern Queensland gave rise to the world’s dominant plant variety
Reader View · Shared by 20, including Grzegorz Wapiński, Liv 😷
Brain Pickings
The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens
Brain Pickings
4 min read · From 2018 · Stunning images that occupy the lacuna between art and science.
Reader View · Shared by 21, including Greater than the Sum, Liv 😷, Jane
The New York Times
Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis?
The New York Times
~18 min read · From 2016 · One researcher thinks the drugs of the future might come from the past: botanical treatments long overlooked by Western medicine.
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Stowe Boyd, Jane, Liv 😷
Brain Pickings
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
Brain Pickings
7 min read · From 2017 · An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.
Reader View · Shared by 16, including Esther Schindler, Jane, ilaria defilippo
BBC Future
Why 'plant blindness' matters — and what you can do about it
BBC Future
5 min read · From 2019 · A phenomenon called "plant blindness" means we tend to underappreciate the flora around us. That can have disastrous consequences not only for the environment, but human health.
Reader View · Shared by 14, including Liv 😷
The New Yorker
Love the Fig
The New Yorker
6 min read · From 2016 · Although many people dismiss it as a geriatric delicacy, it is a biological and evolutionary wonder.
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Botany One, Jane
Nautilus Magazine
Learning to Speak Shrub
Nautilus Magazine
7 min read · From 2018 · Entomologist Richard Karban knows how to get sagebrush talking. To start the conversation, he poses as a grasshopper or a chewing…
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Jane, Liv 😷
Big Think
Getting serious about plant intelligence
Big Think
10 min read · From 2018 · Plant cognitive ecologist Monica Gagliano talks about the challenges facing serious scientific research into plant intelligence.
Reader View · Shared by 11, including Jane, Liv 😷
The New York Times
Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling
The New York Times
3 min read · From 2019 · A colorful Peruvian plant dispenses its pollen according to a savvy, memory-based system, new research suggests.
Reader View · Shared by 11, including Liv 😷
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