A Cure for Plant Blindness | Margaret Conover | TEDxSBU
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Plant blindness is: "the inability to see or notice the plants in one's own environment" and the "misguided, anthropocentric" tendency to rank plants as inferior to animals, rendering them the biological equivalent of wallpaper. We all suffer from plant blindness, and yet the remedy may be found in simple daily practices that we can all enjoy.
Margaret Conover is a botanist and science educator. She received her Ph.D. in 1982 for research she conducted on leaves of the lily family in Australia. Now semi-retired, Margaret enjoyed a career in museum education and administration at SBU’s Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences. She teaches part-time at the Center for Science and Mathematics Education of Stony Brook University, and at the New York Botanical Garden. She is a Master Gardener, co-founder and newsletter editor of the Long Island Botanical Society and president of SBU’s Friends of Ashley Schiff Park Preserve.
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When I was 7 the teacher had us go around our neighborhood and pick the leaves of trees we found. We then identified each leaf and put them in a binder. I'm 66 and still have that binder. That was one of the best school assignments I ever had.
Man she undersold plants. They are extremely charismatic. It’s unbelievable how crazy they get and wild and alien looking they can be
Plant blindness = 2000 views in 6 years
Can you see the irony?
Plants don’t need humans. Humans need plants. So it’s no
Symbiotic relationship.
Cool lesson! So amazing and intelligent lady
Children need to be taught to develop their powers of observation.
First one learns to see. Then you strive for 20/20 vision, or greater, by making it your life’s work.
Well, then i know it is hard, but botannist need to be less quiet too! Mostly by making it fun ! I mean, we have access to a way of reading the world that is so fun ! This is the seductive optique we want people too look with us through! I mean it could be through plant symbolism through art, Show us how to enjoy!
I love this talk. But obviously, it doesn't work. So few views. I wonder why... Please tell me your guesses.
biomass is a simple fact. phytoplankton or flesh? ill stay green. love you earth angels. Raw plant based living is the future for the soulful
wonderful talk about an essential subject; without plants we die. can anyone recommend a few books for a novice wanting to learn more about the subject. Happy Holidays.
There are many but this is my favourite www.amazon.co.uk/In-Praise-Plants-Francis-Halle/dp/1604692626 you can also check botanical websites, like mine! drmgoeswild.com/ But there are many more! and check #iamabotanist on twitter. Happy botanising! Dr M
thank you
Adam's mom ruins everything!
lmao, this is the comment I was looking for.