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Richard Preston: Climbing the world’s biggest trees

February 11, 2011 by  
Filed under VidStyle

Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems and are still, largely, a mystery.

Outside the Square

June 9, 2008 by  
Filed under Main Blog

Respectability is an odd creature. Especially because of the lengths we might go to capture it. We have a moth-like fascination with it, get caught in the headlights of its high beam and lose our bearings altogether. Strange that fascination isn’t it!