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Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
Personal blog · crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/blogscience
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't is a personal blog at crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com about science. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on botany, lawns, soil and natural history, such as killing a lawn and solar farms creating desert soil crust. One commenter points to it as a source of entertaining reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Completely non-credentialed Botanist. Phylogenetics, biogeography, speciation, selection pressure. Tender bastard beneath a coriaceous exterior.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-24
What Hacker News says?
https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/kill-your-lawn
Comment linking /kill-your-lawn
on “Inkjets are for more than just printing”Submitted Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates as a story · 177 points
HN discussionIf you haven’t run across https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/ you may be in for a treat.
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on “If I could dissect a sauropod”Submitted Feral hogs represent an immediate threat to peyote as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
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on “Using solar farms to generate fresh desert soil crust”Submitted Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Plantation Is Not a Forest as a story · 1 points
HN discussion