Dedicated to the holy in nature. The life in the seed. The beauty that feeds the world.
Found an interesting article on Plant consciousness. Deep in within us we all know they have consciousness, but people keep running test after test to trying to prove that they don’t. We are so limited in our modern thinking, we assume that plants and the …
You know that test about kids and delayed gratification are more successful on life. We now find that Affluence—not willpower—seems to be what’s behind a kids’ capacity to delay gratification. This new paper found that among kids whose mothers had a college degree, those who …
I have noticed the HUGE amount of machine language in our conversations. So I looked up what Machine means: machine (n.) 1540s, “structure of any kind,” from Middle French machine “device, contrivance,” from Latin machina “machine, engine, military machine; device, trick; instrument” (source also of …
Edge Gallery May 18 – June 3, 2018 Words that Wound: the language of misogyny by Wynne Reynolds is a visualization of the effect of language on thought, from the forgotten vocabulary of our ancestors to current phrases that create harmful perceptions of femininity. Wynne’s …
Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the French word longeur, and remarks in passing that though in England we happen not to have the word, we have the thing in considerable profusion. In the same way, there is a habit of mind which is now …
Humans love flavor. Archeologists have found evidence that hunter-gatherers in Stone Age Europe used garlic mustard seeds (a broccoli relative with a mustardy, peppery kick) to season stews 6,000 years ago. For almost as long as we’ve been cooking, we’ve been adding ingredients to our pots that …
