Welcome to the tremendous, amazing, Big Asheville Science Salon! November: Ecology on the Rocks: lichens and other life in the vertical world with cliff ecologist Dr. Laura Boggess. Cool word of the day: lithophilic. Combining the Greek lithos and philos, this term for “stone loving” is remarkably useful (e.g., Scrabble, first dates, last dates), particularly for describing organisms that live on … Continued