Jan 6
Ancient and Poisonous Cycads Are the Prehistoric Plants of Southern California
Cycad at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge. (Photo: Erik Olsen) If there’s one thing our increasingly digital world has pushed me toward, it’s a desire to reconnect with the natural one. At a moment when AI, deepfakes, and synthetic media blur the line between real and artificial, I find myself drawn more strongly to things that…
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