From 2024-03-16…
Slime mould colonies can learn to avoid certain paths that lead to a noxious stimulus, and moulds that have so learnt can transfer this memory of the adaptive response by cell fusion to new colonies that have never encountered the noxious stimulus.”
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/1jPxC8U
“Single cells can take decisions; single cells can plan responses; single cells contain memory.”
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/5MYKLQu
“Single cells can take decisions; single cells can plan responses; single cells contain memory.”
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/7rFR2Gy
March 13, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
The choice could not be clearer or starker. This HCR post is a must read and one to share with friends who are in any way on the fence.
March 10, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
How pathetic is the current iteration of the republican party?…
The Republicans' rebuttal to the State of the Union on Thursday stayed in the news throughout the weekend. On Friday, independent journalist Jonathan Katz figured out that a key story in it was false. Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) described a twelve-year-old child sex trafficked by Mexican cartel members, implying that the young girl was trafficked because of President Joe Biden’s border policies.
We need an international women’s decade. Few things would help humanity more than having less patriarchy and more matriarchy.
March 6, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
On August 6, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recalling “the outrage of Selma,” Johnson said: “This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.”
March 6, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
On the steps of the capitol, speaking under a Confederate flag, Dr. King said: “The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.”
The choices are not ideal, I know, but it doesn’t matter who stands where on what issue. There is only the choice between two individuals and the difference could not be clearer. I will vote for Biden and convince as many as I can that they should too. This is not a time to be “clutching pearls.” We need the ability to choose something better in the future.
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March 4, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
… legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that when Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was Senate majority leader, he “realized you don’t need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don’t need to change hearts and minds. You don’t need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people. All you have to do is stack the courts… with far-right partisan activists…[a]nd they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process.”
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.
… truth!
