What's the Hardest Thing About Getting a Masters?

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Sand: "I feel like a general you's like, no concern about flowers. O, enjoymet is part of ito" He says the hardest heart about getting a masters in science is that you're wearing a lot of hats. Sand on his favorite and least favorite parts of studying plants: "Life, that ca be like the last fun part of it."

Flesh hungry plants. The world’s fastest hunters. Botany with brains? Seymour, it’s time to feed because we’re doing meat-eating plants with conservation ecologist and carnivorous phytobiologist, Hali’a Eastburn. Can a Venus Fly Trap digest human flesh? Do frogs think of pitcher plants as home or hell? How fast is a bladderwort? Are scientists anesthetizing plants? Why exactly DID they name a fly trap after the goddess of love? Also: homicidal plant tattoos, nature’s grossest vending machines, and what plants are most goth with a pair of real #bogbitches.

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Donations were made to North American Sarracenia Conservancy and Kauluakalana