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NEW YORKER AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang

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Do Plants Know Math? Discworld NEW YORKER AND WASHINGTON POSTA breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over themCharles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery if you wish to save me from a miserable death. The legendary naturalist was hardly alone in feeling tormented by these patterns. Plant spirals captured the gaze of Leonardo da Vinci and became Alan Turings final obsession.