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On this day, Mat 23rd 1707, Carl Linnaeus was born in Rashult, Sweden.
Linnaeus became a botanist and explorer, who develoed the principles for defining species and types of organisms in the plant and animal kingdoms, leading to a uniform system for the naming of plants and animals. He was born in a poor area of Sweden, and was unable to afford attending all the lectures at university, though he was eventually able to by teaching botany. As a young man he devloped his ideas and principles, that he was to set out in a number of works, whilst carrying out studies in Lapland amongst the Sami people, of Northern Scandinavia. He also gained his medical qualifications whilst in the Netherlands, where he began to gain the sponsors he needed in order to publish his ideas. Back in Sweden he practised medicine, but sought to return to the study of botany, and was able to build up a network of exploring botanists, who travelled the world at the time of European exploration, bringing to him more specimens to be placed in the growing tree of life his naming system was steadily mapping.
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Japan's Sumida Aquarium is asking for help via Facetime, so that its Garden Eels come out of their burrows again to view their human visitors. Since the lockdown they haven't had any visitors, so they have hidden away in their burrows when their keepers walk by. When they are hidden in their burrows away their state of health is impossible to check - so the keepers are going to try putting tablets by their aquarium, and have people Facetime the Garden Eels so they come out of their burrows to view the human visitors and get used to humans again - so their health can be checked. Interested, watch this video on the BBC, and the link to the Sumida Aquarium page is there too... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52500113 Picture: Maksim Shutive via Unsplash
See how 170 trees that survived the Hiroshima Atom Bomb blast, when pretty much everything else in 2km of the blast was destroye, offered hope in the past and today. A wonderful film, by the BBC's 'Witness History', talking to one of the founders of Green Legacy Hiroshima, Tomoko Watanabe, about the detruction of the bombing and how buds on the trees gave the people of Hiroshima hope in the aftermath; how she learned to appreciate the trees and how the seeds of these remarkable survivors being sent around the world offer hope and peace to humanity today. The Green Legacy Hiroshma is at: http://glh.unitar.org/ See the BBC film at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-52459140/the-trees-that-survived-the-bombing-of-hiroshima Picture; T Grand via Pixabay.
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