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| The Italian Renaissance garden inspired by one at Padua from 1645 (Margot Adler/NPR) |
The Renaissance Garden at the
New York Botanical Garden (nybg.org), a
recreation of a 16th-century
medicinal garden, is so lush and colorful,
it only takes a stroll through to absorb its good medicine.
The
garden, part of a summer exhibit called Wild Medicine: Healing Plants
Around the World. is a small-scale model of the 16th-century Italian
Renaissance Garden at Padua, Europe's first botanical garden.
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| Forests are the Earth's sustenance and key to its salvation (treehugger.com) |
The
landscape includes Mediterranean flowers in multiple colors, fountains,
and odd plants that many people have never seen, like the opium poppy,
with its unusual seed pods. The garden in Padua was created in 1545 as
part of the University of Padua medical school, one of the earliest and
most important medical schools in Europe.
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| Opium poppy (Adler/NY Botanical Garden) |
"The medical school in Padua started in 1222," explains Gregory Long, president and CEO of the New York Botanical Garden...
Cartman on NPR
WARNING: Vile, disturbing, graphic language, hate, egotism, racism, profanity, comedy!
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| Pint sized misanthrope, Eric Cartman |
Eric Cartman [a
sensitive and deeply misunderstood boy who cares deeply about frogs if not ecosystems] is by far the most famous of the four foul-mouthed
grade-schoolers who inhabit the cardboard-cutout town of South Park on
Comedy Central. In fact, he ranked No. 10 on a
TV Guide list of the Top 50 cartoon characters of all time. As
South Park's
major villain, it's Cartman who often provokes the action. It's Cartman
who steals the speedboat that breaks the dam that floods a nearby town,
causing misplaced hysteria about global warming in the episode "Two
Days Before the Day After Tomorrow."
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