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Corn and Beans

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By: Matthew Battles / Edited by: Russell Powell Corn and beans, corn and beans, the refrain of childhood summer drives into the country, up out of the folded town, up and out of the river valley, up into an Illinois dizzy with its endless contours, its...

Why We Should Care About Houseplants

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By Giulia Carabelli / edited by Rachael Petersen In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, fortunate to be working from home, I lived for extended periods of time alone with many houseplants. This changed my relationship with them dramatically. I...

Delightfully Paradoxical: Finding Science at the Divinity School

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Before his residency at MIT as a 2024-2025 Knight Science Journalism Fellow, Aaron Scott (not relation to Natalia Schwien Scott) hosted the podcasts Short Wave from NPR and Timber Wars from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Aaron also joined the recent Thinking...

"Phantom Tree" Exhibition and Opening Reception Photos

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Postdoctoral fellow Elitza Koeva presented her artwork at "Phantom Tree," an exhibition at 92 Seattle Street in Allston, MA as part of the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Conference. The exhibition and the conference explored how plants and fungi help us...

Fighting a new invasive species: AI's impossible flora

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By Giovanni Aloi / edited by Rachael Petersen Ten-foot-tall hostas and bright teal blooming geraniums, purple sunflowers, blue pampas grass plumes, black marigolds, and rainbow roses—the list is endless. Social media platforms have recently become...

Seedbeds of Creativity: Superblooms and Superorganisms

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By Lisa Sideris / edited by Russell Powell To open one’s mind to the mere existence of a superbloom shreds all kinds of narratives: the end of nature, the hopelessness of our times, the loss of wildness. – Thomas Ranier, “The Superbloom in an Age of...