Cryptoforestry

When rereading an old post on ' novel ecosystems ' I wondered in what way statistics could illustrate the point of rapidly changi...

With much zeal but little talent (the instructor implied I was fat, it took me some time before I realized I was wearing my left shoe on ...

"The journal for the protection of all beings" was published as the fall 1978 issue of Stewart Brand's CoEvolution Quaterly...

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of m...

Located in the Westonbirt Arboretum is a Lime tree that is over 2000 years old and that managed to reach its respectable age by a 25-yea...

Cassia corymbosa : A, plant during day; B, same plant at night. Charles Darwin is usually only known for his theoretical work (which ar...

A man in a circus doing tricks A little man inside the head of a crododile A story about a monkey in a place far away from here [...

Human migration as a kind of elephant tourism? Actual hard evidence is maybe a bit wanting but Gary Haynes makes an interesting suggestio...

" lacto-fermented hogweed soup (+eggs): the original borscht " Nancy Turner and six co-authors wrote " Edible and Tended ...

In a TV documentary on Hendrik Lenstra , the Dutch mathematician, the man travels to Berlin to deliver the Euler lecture. His main conce...

Crannog , Neolithic artificial island, found splattered across Ireland and Scotland in their hundreds. There is one in Wal...

From Gregor's book on Xingu's Mehinaku people ( earlier ); one image shows a humanized capuchin monkey and the other a Golemized ...

In Charles C. Mann's '1493' ( earlier ) we find this glossed picture of an Amazonian garden in N.E. Brazil. It shows the deta...

The Mehinaku are an indigenous Amazonian  people living in Xingu park. In his 1977 book 'The Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a ...

I discovered a plant in my street and a reader knew it's name: verbena bonariensis . The plant grew on its own in a small messy flo...