The Wardian case toppled China’s tea monopoly, spread invasive plants everywhere, created the rubber plantations in Sri Lanka … and much more. And this was all because Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, an East London doctor and amateur horticulturist, “sealed a moth chrysalis and some mold in a glass jar.”
Tag: 11.12.17
Gal Godot May Not Be Wonder Woman Again If Accused Harasser Is Still Making Money From It
Her Wonder Woman was so successful last summer that the studio has changed its entire marketing plan to focus around her character. But: “Following multiple sexual misconduct and harassment allegations against producer Brett Ratner, Gadot has reportedly said that she will not return to the franchise if Ratner will continue to profit off of it. Ratner’s RatPac-Dune Entertainment had a co-financing deal with Warner Bros., one the studio elected not to renew after 2018 in light of the allegations.”
Author Jesmyn Ward On Writing Place And Our ‘Difficult Moment In History’
Ward, author of Savage the Bones, The Men We Reaped and the new Sing, Unburied, Sing, says that she and George Saunders (author of the Booker-winning Lincoln in the Bardo) may both be writing about the spirit world right now for similar reasons: “Many people in power are attempting to rewrite the past and the present to fit their narrative. Writing about spirits is a way to counteract some of that, because the people of the past are allowed to be present in the moment and tell their own (true) stories, and often, there is a reckoning between the living and the dead.”