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Updated: July 11, 2021, 9:38 am © Supplied They don’t come more paradoxical than Dr Marie Joseph Jean Houbert. Born to sugar plantation-owning French aristocrats of Indian Ocean island Mauritius, he would choose instead to live his days as a recluse by the North Sea in Bridge of Don. A political futurist, he predicted the fall of ‘Fortress Europe’ via Middle-Eastern and African migration decades before it ever looked likely, yet lived without modern conveniences, having never owned a microwave oven. Dr Houbert. A private person by choice most of the time, he went for curries with peers...

A pioneering forest researcher's memoir describes 'Finding the Mother Tree' Suzanne Simard has found that forest trees are connected with an underground circulatory system that allows them to communicate and share resources, and that 'Mother trees' are the most connected of all. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 30, 2021 3:57 PM ET | Last Updated: April 30 Professor Suzanne Simard's new book is 'Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.'(Bill Heath)