Life in a Sealed Jar. A Brief History of Terrariums ♫
media / Audio
Closed terrariums are currently in vogue for urban gardeners, but their history runs all the way back to 19th-century botany. Original text by Joanna Dobkowska. Read by Konstancja Dangel.
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Chirping, Whistling and Tootling ♫
Media / Audio
Identifying the songs of different birds can be tricky and time-consuming. It can also become a lifelong passion that soothes the mind and has a positive effect on mood. Inspects - Olga Drenda, read by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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Colourful Caterpillars
Colourful Caterpillars
How Maria Sibylla Merian Embraced Art and Science
Magazine / culture
In 1700, the German naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Suriname, where she studied and illustrated tropical insects. Her pioneering work continues to inspire entomologists.
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Archaic and Eternal Time in the Mediterranean Sea ♫
Media / Audio
The Mediterranean Sea is a crossroads of the dispossessed, a place that bears witness to both watery deaths and renewed lives. Jarosław Mikołajewski reflects on its timelessness, and what it might reveal about humanity.
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Julia
Fiedorczuk
Fiedorczuk
An Introduction to Charles Bernstein’s “The Darkness He Called Night”
Reading / literature
Charles Bernstein’s poem “The Darkness He Called Night” is typically playful and ironic, as it toys with the literal and metaphorical meanings of darkness, light and virtue.