After several conversations with some of the smartest, kindest people I know, a realization struck me that needed to get worked through. In different mystical traditions and even in striving for non-mystical eudaemonia, we find these two metaphors often: veil and door. Usually a barrier or obstacle that needs to be removed or passed thru….
This post I stumbled upon from The Guardian. The key to the post was a research paper in Frontiers in Plant Science. Here’s the Guardian’s summary that should get everybody’s attention. Streetlights left on all night cause leaves to become so tough that insects cannot eat them, threatening the food chain, a study has found….
A recent publication from SyFy builds on research published at the American Physical Society (APS). The reachers’ main point is that bees and flowers communicate electronically. Here is the published summary / abstract from the APS: Electricity is everywhere and is essential to the functioning of life. Understanding how organisms organise themselves using the natural…
In a recently published academic paper that I cannot now find nor fully remember, the author focused on the metaphor change from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. They asserted that that simple metaphor change was introduced initially as a compromise to “deniers”; that metaphor change, either intentionally or not, reduced angst, urgency and sadly, human…
Anthropocene just posted a summary of a research study published in Science, “Olfaction in the Anthropocene: NO3 negatively affects floral scent and nocturnal pollination.” Science. Feb. 8, 2024. This goes along with other posts on animal perception (and human’s inability to do same), as well as looking at unintended consequences from human actions – part of…
