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blog.pensoft.net is the company blog at blog.pensoft.net, writing about science. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
One commenter cites a Pensoft blog post about a newly discovered plant species with heart-shaped fruits, used to argue many fruits remain undiscovered. The linked posts cover new species discoveries.
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What Hacker News says?
What's wild about this, is that there are probably a huge number of fruits that were not even discovered yet at this time. For example, this fruit discovered in 2016 https://blog.pensoft.net/2016/02/12/new-species-with-heart-s... > Just in time for Valentine’s Day, botanists from Hawai’i have discovered a new species of plant with small heart-shaped fruits. The new species is a member of the coffee family (Rubiaceae…
Comment linking /2016/02/12/new-species-with-heart-shaped-fruits-inspires-a-love-for-biodiversity-in-hawaii/
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