Houseplants became Instagram models in 2020 driving sales up by billions and overwhelming mail-order and garden-supply stores; we know a lot more about the bulbous shape of the sun’s shield against the ravages of the interstellar medium due to data gathered over a decade; and creators learn more about reclaiming their copyright after decades have passed.

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Links:

• How the Pandemic Has Changed the Houseplant Industry—and Why (House Beautiful)
• Are all those houseplants people got during COVID still alive? (APM Markpetplace)
• Partly Sunny Projects (Sonja Detrinidad)
• Demand outpacing supply on house plants during pandemic (KMBC News)
• Covid lockdowns turned buying plants into the next big pandemic trend — for good reason (NBC News THINK)
• Q&A: What Causes Variegation? (Horticulture Magazine)
• New Zealand houseplant sells for $19,200 in online bidding war (CNN)
• Rhaphidophora tetrasperma (Exotic Rainforest)
• The Effects of The Number of Indoor Foliage Plants on Productivity, Stress and Attention (CLIMA 2013 International Conference)
• The solar wind bubble that protects Earth has been mapped for the first time (MIT Technology Review)
• A Three-dimensional Map of the Heliosphere from IBEX (The Astrophysical Journal Supplement)
• Who’s Gotten Their Copyright Back? (Kottke.org)
• George Clinton Denied Rights to His Own Work (MTV)
• clinton-wins-funkadelic-rights.html">George Clinton Wins Funkadelic Rights (New York Times)
• U.S. Copyright Termination Notices 1977-2020: Introducing New Datasets (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies)
• Termination of Transfers and Licenses Under 17 U.S.C. §203 (U.S. Copyright Office)
• Quantifying copyright reversion (Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic)

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