Archive for June 12, 2022

No person who has not spent a period of his life in those ‘stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole’ will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man. Ernest Shackleton The scenery in Antarctica can be quite beautiful, but it is stark, and…

How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it’s quite clearly ocean. Arthur Clarke I study mixotrophic plankton because I find them fascinating – on land carnivorous plants (e.g. sundews, pitcher plants and venus fly traps) are restricted to certain environments – yet mixotrophs are found in almost all aquatic environments. We’ve known about mixotrophic…