An interview with a sparklingly botanical man with a mission!
Dr M says: Who can it be?
Lock up your daughters! eXtreme pornobotany is here!
Dr M says: Botany is sexy, erotic and, well to some minds, even pornographic, its official! Dr M adds: So what’s new?! Erasmus Darwin was one of the first to revel in the sexuality of plants in his magnum opus “The Loves of the Plants” which was a popular rendering of Linnaeus’ works in English. Written in highly sexualized language, it can be described as a
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Dr M meets a great 18th century polymath and botanist, but who is he?
During the 71 years of my highly productive lifetime I: Said “A fool you know, is a man who never tried an experiment in his life”
“…zoologists are villainous Dr Evils determined to destroy the Earth” says University Lecturer
Dr M is delighted to introduce this typically non-contentious guest post from fellow botanist John H Warren
Botanical (and zoological) illustration
Dr M is planning a series of posts on talented botanical illustrators and, just to be contrary, the first of these deals with zoological illustration, but with a botanical twist!
Something botanical for the weekend Madam?
Dr M is particularly fond of a slug or two of fine Gin at the weekend, and what finer and more appropriate brand could there be for the plant doctor than The Botanist?
Inspiring the next generation of botanists TODAY!
Dr M attended the UK PlantSci 2014 meeting in York, 31st March 2014.
Botany is dead, long-live eXtreme botany!
Last year Dr M was struck by an article entitled“The Death of Botany” in the “Rant and Reason” section of the June 2013 edition of the magazine of the British Ecological Society. In this rant, Dr Markus Eichhorn, botanist at the University of Nottingham, bemoaned the loss of botany degree programmes from UK Universities.
Voyages round my lichen twigs #3 – Gloria to Xanthoria!
You know it by now, Dr M is particularly fond of lichens! And especially excited that the resident exhibition at Reading Science Week was the Symbiosis project which takes lichens as a metaphor for the creative symbiosis between artists and scientists. In celebration of this union, Dr M has embarked on a series of music videos collectively entitled “a voyage round my lichen twigs” and all inspired by
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Voyages round my lichen twigs #2 crustose is as crustose does
Dr M is particularly fond of lichens and especially delighted that the resident exhibition at Reading Science Week was the Symbiosis project which takes lichens as a metaphor for the creative symbiosis between artists and scientists. In celebration of this union, Dr M has embarked on a series of music videos collectively entitled “a voyage round my lichen twigs” and all inspired by the diversity of lichens encountered
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