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the fungi are pursuing their own agendas and appear to be very much in favor of conciliation and equitable distribution of information and resources.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature Book 1)
Over the last few decades biologists have reached the firm conclusion that the man pressing the buttons and drinking the tea is also an algorithm.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
But science is rigorous in separating the observer from the observed, and the observed from the observer.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
they assume that the environment (in the form of an observed phenomenon, or a tall tree, say) can ‘instruct’ minds or genomes in how to meet its challenges.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
‘The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence’,
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
Paul Pettitt is currently exploring ‘primate thanatology’ – looking for roots and resonance of human behaviour through ethnographic study that embraces other animals’ behaviours. Among chimpanzees, mothers have been seen carrying dead infants around with them; individuals may visit, smell, touch, hit – and sometimes devour – a corpse. There are so
... See moreAlice Roberts • Ancestors
The strongest argument for gene editing cane toads, house mice, and ship rats is also the simplest: what’s the alternative? Rejecting such technologies as unnatural isn’t going to bring nature back. The choice is not between what was and what is, but between what is and what will be, which, often enough, is nothing. This is the situation of the Dev
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Skepticism, the heart of the scientific method, is the only way we know how to ferret out fact from fiction.