How to Be Rooted in One Place, Part 10
The most “successful” dipterocarps leave little left over for anyone else. They hog the light and suck up all the nutrients in the soil.
The most “successful” dipterocarps leave little left over for anyone else. They hog the light and suck up all the nutrients in the soil.
To a mathematician, a tree is a data structure, starting with the root or node at the top, branching out and terminating in leaves…
Why do we have a hard time getting our heads around the fact that carnivorous plants like Sarracenia purpurea are temperate?
Forget Paleo, Keto and Raw. Go home to grandma while she’s still around, and quick, transcribe all her traditional recipes. It turns out that…
To take this photograph of a Phalaenopsis venosa in flower in Sulawesi, I had to climb up on the shoulders of a hardy guide. A minute later, as I got back down on to what I thought was solid ground, I fell through a pile of debris on the forest floor into a deep hole. Luckily, I grabbed onto a nearby root, so I was not lost forever, although I did lose my lens cap.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the above is a photo of the Scottish Highlands. In fact, it was taken in central Sulawesi.
Could American popular culture achieve what even Gandhi couldn’t? I’m taking of course about unity in the Subcontinent.
Free trade was key to the rise of the mighty seafaring kingdoms of Southeast Asia, where a cultural predilection for pluralism, individual liberty and the primacy of contracts played an instrumental role.
In the first of a series, the in-house wonk at the Tropicalist will summarize and dole out, chapter by chapter, all the bits of wisdom from the landmark 2014 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.
How do you imagine your countrymen? Are they the people who look like you? Think like you? Or simply live around you?
Early Arab society, like the Quran itself, was strikingly egalitarian, until it came up against the reality of administering a large and multicultural empire.
The story of how the humble bulb became embroiled in the conflict between the forces of globalization and tradition.
“Tulip” and “turban” are doublets, or words having the same etymological origin.
A spirited discussion with a panel of experts reveals a link between the educational arms race and increasing class anxiety.