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The case for ecocentric socialism: Part 2
Resilience 23 Jul 2021
Share. Tweet. Print. Ed. note. Part 1 of this essay can be found on Resilience.org here. 4 ... 2018) ... Animistic belief systems commonly do not have words for distinguishing between people, animals, and plants as separate categories, using instead classification systems based on terms of equality rather than the hierarchies of modern-day Linnaean taxonomies ... O.
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COVID-19 has more Americans thinking about science. Could this be a Sputnik moment?
Post Bulletin 11 Sep 2020
The world is grappling with a deadly threat, though its seriousness has been downplayed by the president and proposed solutions are rejected by those who insist that the economy will suffer ... The U.S ... “I don’t really care that students remember the details of Linnaean classification,” she said, referring to how living things are sorted into species ... 3.
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Botany and The Colonization of Australia in 1770
Ancient Origins 04 May 2020
When Banks and his friend Solander went ashore on April 29, 1770 to collect plants for naming and classification, the Englishman recollected they saw “nothing like people” ... Both Solander and Banks were advocates for the Linnaean method of taxonomy. a systematic classification of newly named plants and animals.
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Brainpickings
29 Jan 2020
A Curious Herbal: Gorgeous Illustrations from Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-Century Encyclopedia of Medicinal Botany
Brainpickings
29 Jan 2020
(The Linnaean classification system did not yet exist — Carl Linnaeus, born the same year as Blackwell, was yet to revolutionize taxonomy with his binomial nomenclature.) After producing an astonishing 500 drawings — many of species now endangered or altogether ...
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Trinity College’s new sculpture: 30 women to put on a pedestal
The Irish Times 02 Oct 2019
It has been more than 200 years coming, but better late than never. the provost of Trinity College Dublin wants the first woman to join the 40 men memorialised in marble busts in the Long Room of the Old Library ... Consisting of 18 conversations between a mother and her son, it covered the principles of the Linnaean system of classification ... . .
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Trinity College Dublin’s new sculpture: 30 women worth putting on a pedestal
The Irish Times 02 Oct 2019
It has been more than 200 years coming, but better late than never. the provost of Trinity College Dublin wants the first woman to join the 40 men memorialised in marble busts in the Long Room of the Old Library ... Consisting of 18 conversations between a mother and her son, it covered the principles of the Linnaean system of classification ... . .
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