Category: trees

22Sep 2024 by Post

Pond Scum Is Our Equal: That’s Nature Rights for You

China, Climate Week, Culture & Ethics, earth goddess, fossil fuels, grass, human race, human thriving, Life Sciences, Luddism, mining, mosquitoes, natural gas, nature rights, nonhuman beings, Pachamama, pipeline construction, pond scum, resources, Rights of Nature Tribunal, scallops, self-loathing, squirrels, trees

Now, a “tribunal” will be held in New York to promote the rights of nature and undermine public support for fossil fuels. Source

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06Nov 2023 by Post

The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart

animals, anthropomorphism, bacteria, behavior, biology, Chapman University, Curiosity rover, Darwinians, Duke University, ethylene, flowers, herbivores, Ian T. Baldwin, intelligence, Intelligent Design, ivy, leaf senescence, leaves, Life Sciences, memory, Michael Pollan, Nature (journal), nitrogen, programming, Richard Karban, self-awareness, strigolactone, synthetic organic chemistry, tendrils, tentacles, The New Yorker, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, trees, Wesley Smith

Two signaling molecules — strigolactone and ethylene — can work independently to begin the process of leaf senescence. Source

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03Aug 2023 by Post

On the BBC, a New Openness to Teleology in Biology?

Atheism, BBC iPlayer, BBC Two, Chris Packham, cosmic view, divine activity, fungal networks, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, miracles, nature documentaries, non-Darwinian processes, plant biology, plants, purpose, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, teleology, theism, trees

Dr. Richard Buggs is a plant biologist and professor of evolutionary genomics at Queen Mary, University of London. Source

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21Mar 2022 by Post

Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species

Alana Chin, axial leaf, biology, Christopher Stockey, coastal redwoods, Darwinism, design reasoning, Evolution, grasshoppers, Intelligent Design, Joel, leaf types, Life Sciences, lions, mammals, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, narrative gloss, Northern California, Old Testament, Orthoptera, peripheral leaf, photosynthesis, Sequoia sempervirens, teeth, trees, UC Davis

If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar? Source

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20Jun 2021 by Post

Turning Our Dead into Fertilizer

aqua cremation, cemetery, compost, Culture, Culture & Ethics, fertilizer, home shrines, human bodies, human person, Kate Brown, natural organic reduction, Oregon, recycling, rose garden, sewage, Soylent Green, trees

These methods send a powerful symbolic statement that we are essentially nothing more than carbon atoms gathered temporarily in a rational and animated form. Source

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02Aug 2020 by Post

The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained

Carboniferous Period, charcoal, conduction, convection, evaporative cooling, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness, Goldilocks, humus, industrial age, Intelligent Design, iron, Life Sciences, lignin, metallurgy, metals, nature, organic compounds, oxygen, photosynthesis, physiology, plant cells, pottery, radiation, steam engine, trees, wood, woody plants

Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy. Source

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