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Dispatch From the National Library of Finland
At no other time in the history of humanity have we had easier access to information than we do today. From the greatest thinkers of antiquity, to the diaries of Roman emperors, to the dizzying collections of letters and papers strewn about, to the vast numbers of scientific leaps that have changed the game so… Continue reading
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Book Recommendation: White Light
I highly recommend White Light: The Essential Element that Changed the World, a book about Phosphorous, by Jack Lohmann. Published just last year in 2025, the book details the Phosphorous cycle and its crucial role in life on Earth, its discovery as an agricultural fertilizer, and the severe environmental and political implications of mining it.… Continue reading
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Book Recommendation: Finding the Mother Tree
I’ve had this one on my reading list for awhile having read some of her scientific work in the course of learning about plant’s symbiotic connections with microbial life, and I cannot recommend this one enough: Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard published in 2021. The journey to discovering trees and forests’ connections with… Continue reading
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Brilliant Green
One of the more fascinating parts of science and science history (at least to me) is that the true nature of something can be ascertained by asking the right questions. There are many many many examples of science (or society) rejecting a correct assertion dozens or hundreds of years before it is accepted. And since… Continue reading
About Graham
Graham is an ecologist-farmer from Canada working on educating about the wonders and beauty of the natural world, and how we can design biodiverse food production systems.
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