If I said Michael Pollan changed my life. would you think I sounded like a groupie? Probably. And then I'd have to be embarrassed. So I'll ratchet back a quarter turn and just say he made a big ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Jan Brueghel the Younger came from a celebrated ...

Asa Gray, world-famous botanist born and bred in the Upper Mohawk Valley region, publishes what many say is his most important work – “Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States.” Gray, ...

Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how ...

Many of Wade Batson’s former students gathered for his 100th birthday party two years ago. Batson is in the rocking chair in the center. Bonnie Dutton PROVIDED PHOTO Wade Batson was one of those ...