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Sex and Death: Orchids, Carnivorous Plants and Us

‘Sex and Death: Orchids, Carnivorous Plants and Us’ is coming to the Sydney Tropical Centre, that giant glass pyramid, starting Thursday 1 December 2005. The exhibition will be open for three years, but some of the orchids only bloom a few times each summer, and the flowers only last two days. "Stunning displays of orchids and carnivorous plants with humorous interpretation will tell the story of fundamental evolutionary processes. The seduction of insects by plants, their unwitting co-operation and the cruel deception leading to inevitable death will be played out using rare and unusual orchids and sinister carnivorous plants." Just my kind of thing.

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here

Posted by iwoolf at November 30, 2005 8:58 PM | TrackBack