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The Floating Forest of Sargassum

Posted by on Mar 27, 2023 in Unmowed Blog | 1 comment

The Floating Forest of Sargassum

Sargassum seaweed looks like flat, floating mats of weed. But below the surface, Sargassum creates a whole forest—upside down.

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The Giant Blob of Seaweed

Posted by on Mar 19, 2023 in Unmowed Blog | 14 comments

The Giant Blob of Seaweed

What’s up with the giant mat of seaweed floating towards us? Where did it come from and why is it here?

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The Monkey Trial: John Scopes and the Battle Over Teaching Evolution

Posted by on Mar 14, 2023 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

The Monkey Trial: John Scopes and the Battle Over Teaching Evolution

When I began to research the Scopes trial (which has gone down in history as the Monkey Trial) I soon discovered that there was no lack of information.

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The Forest in the Sea

Posted by on Feb 21, 2023 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

The Forest in the Sea

Happy book birthday to The Forest in the Sea! I really enjoyed researching this book as I’ve always loved seaweed.

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Seaweed: The Edible Forest

Posted by on Jan 25, 2023 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Seaweed: The Edible Forest

In the depths of the potato famine the Irish found on the seashore a crop of nutritious food that their ancestors had eaten, a life-giving food the fungus couldn’t kill: seaweed.

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The Forest in the Sea

Posted by on Jan 17, 2023 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

The Forest in the Sea

The ocean is home to some of the most amazing forests in the world. The answers to many of our planet’s problems may lie under the water, too, hidden in these underwater forests of seaweed.

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