Category: Books
Smarty Plants – On Plant “Intelligence”, the “Vegetal Life” and Philosophical Botany
New eBook from HowPlantsWork – “Plant Trek: To Boldly Go Where No Plant Has Gone Before”
On the Past, Present & Future of Plant Genetic Engineering Why would anyone want to insert foreign genes into plants? When and where was this technology invented? And how does it work? Who makes money from this technology? If you grow genetically-engineered crops in the field, won’t the foreign genes…
Why People Need Plants
Will You Please Stop Zoomorphizing Plants, Please.
zoomorphize (verb) – to ascribe animal features to something know (verb) – to hold information in mind; to realize something; to comprehend something What A Plant Knows. What prompted this blog post was a recently-published book called What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz,…
The Emerald Planet (better late than never)
Smarty Plants – On Plant “Intelligence”, the “Vegetal Life” and Philosophical Botany
New eBook from HowPlantsWork – “Plant Trek: To Boldly Go Where No Plant Has Gone Before”
On the Past, Present & Future of Plant Genetic Engineering Why would anyone want to insert foreign genes into plants? When and where was this technology invented? And how does it work? Who makes money from this technology? If you grow genetically-engineered crops in the field, won’t the foreign genes…
Why People Need Plants
Will You Please Stop Zoomorphizing Plants, Please.

zoomorphize (verb) – to ascribe animal features to something know (verb) – to hold information in mind; to realize something; to comprehend something What A Plant Knows. What prompted this blog post was a recently-published book called What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz,…