December 10, 2003
NOVA: Orchid Hunter
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orchid/
A companion to this week's episode on the PBS television science show
NOVA, this site introduces orchids. The TV show features an orchid
hunter (Tom Hart Dyke) who travels the world looking for rare orchids,
at considerable personal risk. The website offers a 15 orchid image
gallery, information about orchid "smarts"-remarkable adaptations for
orchid survival by Susan Orlean (author of "The Orchid Thief"), pages
on classifying life and more on famous amateur scientists. As they
say, check your local TV listings for the show; check this site for
some nice information about orchids and amateur science. (***1/2) -S
