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Nettles are so ordinary in temperate countries that nobody looks closely at them, which is a shame, because the stinging apparatus is one of the more precisely engineered things…
It looks like the least interesting substance in the garden. Here are seventeen things it is doing.
1. Half of It Is Not There
Good soil is roughly half solid…
One rock type, unusually pure and unusually porous, produces a landscape unlike anything around it - dry on top, wet underneath and covered in a grassland that only exists because…
There is a habit of describing sea organisms using land vocabulary, and it causes a persistent misunderstanding about seaweed.
The words used — root, stem, leaf — describe a land…
There is a description of this process that everybody learns and that understates it substantially.
The description is that a tadpole grows legs, loses its tail and becomes a frog…
Every surface in a home collects the same grey film, and it is a record of everything that has been shed, tracked in or blown through recently. Here are fifteen…