Introducing Dr. Dominique Russo, St. Remedius’s Most Famous Botanist (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Believe you me, she heard it all. The comments about “which offramp did you grow up on?” The queries about favorite brands of pork roll and the best places to go crabbing. The wiseacres asking about her overly loquacious brother and his mute hetero life partner. (They were even more confused…
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St. Remedius Medical College: "The Cure For Plant Blindness"
Plants Deserve Love, Too (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The official term is “plant blindness”: “the inability of a person to notice plants and/or appreciate their significance.” For a significant proportion of the human population, plants are background: the trees, shrubs, vines, and other outgrowths that conceal the important things in the universe, namely us animals. Look at a diorama of a Carboniferous forest, and…