Usually you can see Sir John Everett Millais’ Ophelia at Tate Britain, but it was recently loaned out to Japan and now is in Turin, after that maybe somewhere else.  It is good to share. For most interested people around the globe a digital or printed image is all that they are ever likely to …

Pascal Wyse and Joe Berger are two witty, silly, offbeat gentlemen, who go by the moniker of Berger & Wyse when producing some super cartoons together for The Weekend Guardian among others. Of particular interest to us are the talking fruit and vegetable cartoons from their food series. Here are a few of our favourites below, …

To some of us herbaria, taxonomy, nomenclature and specimens are all rather romantic. To others they are living symbols of our colonial past and neo-colonial present. Where the role of botanical expeditions in exploiting, through acquisition and inventory, the world’s most valuable species, contributed to the monolithic global economic inequities that are impossible to shift …