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I'll be taking a botany course for the hell of it starting this week. Exciting, I know. Tell me your experiences please.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

There was a great article in today's Guardian about a forensic botanist who provides police evidence by taking pollen samples etc from bodies. I was very impressed that she could tell someone had walked through an overgrown ditch 13 days previously by looking at the way the nettles were sprouting.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

57 7th, I'm applying to do an OU short course in astrophysics (the extremely simple beginners version, obv) - it's exciting!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

What's OU?

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 10 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Two of my grandparents were botanists. It's fascinating stuff! Angiosperms and Gymnosperms and all that.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

OU = Open University. £99 for a 10 week course, 8-10 hours work a week. Seems about right - my only worry is that it'll be a bit basic as it's an area I've read about with interest in the recent past.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Insist on taking field trips.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 January 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

The world needs more botanists. Do not be put off by annoying blokism in your fellow students. Don't be put off if it seems there is a lot to learn, it will come together easily if you think about landscapes, communities, function and taxonomy (relationships)rather than "oh my god there are 1000000000 plants to memorize".

Don't be scared if field trips seem physically demanding, this is a lie, actually botanists walk very slowly and stop to look at everything. The people who rush around showing off their new gaiters are not botanists, they are wankers (see annoying blokism).

Botany is a v diverse field so if you are not into the community scale ecological side you can do heaps of interesting stuff about plant physiology and function and limits to growth/yeild (this has the advantage of being a respectable, money earning, biotechnology kind of science).

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

botany is the most O_O ever

― dark link (roxymuzak), Sunday, 6 February 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

I was just thinking of alternation of generations plant life cycles on the bus yesterday. They are fucking crazy. Plants are just crazy. Even the ones that don't sing and eat people.

Botany is the class that made me think –– ppl w/an allergic reaction to pollen should explain by saying "sorry I have a lot of sperm in my nose right now." Or maybe not.

― A Alphabetical Leader (Abbbottt), Sunday, 6 February 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)

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