Botany Without Borders

Where Design Meets Science.

Saturday, May 3, 2014

UX in the garden

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Who experiences the garden? We do, our close neighbors do, and so do the people who come past the house walking their dogs or with kids in s...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Keeping the soil in shape

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Our urban garden is small and narrow. I wanted to introduce some height to the surface so it wouldn't be just a flat boring garden. But ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Eradicating garden weeds: Not

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A few weeks ago in the California desert we were treated to a wonderful show of native flowers. It looked like the flowers were emerging fro...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Time-sensitive ecology of the hairy fungus

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My friend and colleague Peter Busher was out doing fieldwork near his study site at the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts. He took picture...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Something useful from something arcane

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I focused on lichen morphology and morphogenesis for my PhD work at Harvard and subsequent research. My goal was to identify form and the d...
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I communicate science to non-scientists. My interest in the intersection between art and science, which I consider to be closely related practices, is the focus of two essay collections I am working on. As a Harvard PhD I realized that the work we do in the library and laboratory, while worthy in and of itself, does not necessarily translate to normal people. Bridging that gap is my goal in my teaching practice and in these posts. I teach college sophomores at Boston University and I teach in the sustainability program at the Boston Architectural College.
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