“There are not many of us doing vegetable philosophy, either professionally or casually.” – notes associate professor Karen L.F. Houle (from the Department of Philosophy at The University of Guelph, Canada) in a recent article for the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume IX, Issue 1/2, 2011. Her paper, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension […]
Tag: plants
Plants with charisma: A first analysis
Some plants have more charisma than others, in the sense that they seem to draw stronger reactions from people than do certain other plants. So suggests a recent study. Emily Anthes, writing in the Wonderland blog, reacts to it: I came across the work of Emily Hounslow [pictured here], currently a PhD student at the UK’s University […]
N. attenboroughii vs Rat
Newly Discovered Carnivorous Jungle Plant Gobbles Rats Whole Deep in the jungle primeval, Nepenthes attenboroughii awaits its furry prey. But N. attenboroughii isn’t a stealthy cat or poisonous lizard. It’s a plant, and it eats rats. So says a Popular Science article by Stuart Fox. The study formally announcing the discovery (of the plant, though […]
Are There Any Non-Carnivorous Plants?
There may be more meat-eating plants out there than we previously thought: It’s all about defining your terms. “Murderous plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory,” Mark W. Chase, Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Dawn Sanders, Michael F. Fay, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (4), December 2009, pp. 329-356. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01014.x. The authors […]