[ad_1] Last week’s article on Flerkens spawned a discussion as they often do, correcting and expanding on a somewhat offhand comment about Flerken cognition. Specifically I asked, Are they sentient? That’s not what I should have asked, I was informed. The word I should have used was sapient. I wasContinue Reading

19th century Austrian artist Anton Hartinger was noted for his still life paintings of fruit and flowers, and also was a botanical illustrator. He was responsible for a noted work titled Endlicher’s Paradisus Vindobonensis (Endlicher’s Viennese Paradise – link is to the book reproduction on plantillustrations.org), consisting of handpainted printsContinue Reading