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[the-science-gossip]

Some Botanical (and biological) Book Recs

A collection of some personal recommendations of mine for books that are related to botany, or perhaps just some form of wildlife.

Florapedia, by Carol Gracie: This book contains all sorts of treasures, full of valuable teachings from the more scientific aspects of botany, as well as little bios about botanists of the past, profiles on strange plants you might never hear of anywhere else, and the cultural heritage and importance of different plants to different people. 

Plants - From Roots to Riches, by Kathy Willis and Carolyn Fry: This book focuses on the evolution of botany as a study, and how plants have changed the way our world works, as well as how we have changed the world of plants. It covers a broad range of ideas, theories and points in different chapters, such DNA analysis, the importance of preservation and biodiversity, and the economic side of the plant kingdom.

How Plants Work, by Stephen Blackmore: This book delves deep into the complexities of plants, their evolution and evolutionary context, and how long dead fossilised plants affect our knowledge of the plant world today. Each part of the book focuses on a certain part of the plant, roots, stem, etc, allowing an in depth study of plants and how they evolve. Also writes of how these parts and plants are altered by region, habitat, and how they survive and adapt in new climates. 

Metazoa, by Peter Godfrey-Smith: A book on human consciousness and how it extends to animals and the wildlife around us. It talks of evolution in people, particularly in the mind, as well as where and how that affects our world. Can get a bit philosophical.

Goodreads links for you to check out yourself!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55271785-florapedia?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=yCDoLF5BBz&rank=1 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23272432-plants?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Mkby7TGYIE&rank=1

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39204064-how-plants-work?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=4mHwszibow&rank=4

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50403455-metazoa?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=1dUVUmhrLu&rank=1

[entoman-created-by-the-tallgreys]

Mountain Minded

Sceptics are Seriously Mentally ill  - 

thay Never believe Anything and thay see there petty excuse as a Rational answer 

Big Foot could walk up and Punch the in the face and there so Stupid thay would call the cop’s and say a man in a big foot suit punched them and ran away into the forest - 

Sceptics Are Truly schizophrenic - 

schizophrenic is Coined as : a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation

that’s a SCEPTIC !!! 

[judyfaylondon]

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[entoman-created-by-the-tallgreys]

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you Know What else has  Powder on them that Look’s Magical ... and it doesn't Glow ... Moth’s 

and a Bug that Dose Glow ... kinda like a fairy is a Fire fly - now speed up evolution a few billion year’s an relies that human started as a stupid monkey and then went on to make Sociality 

it’s Evolution 

[entoman-created-by-the-tallgreys]

[entoman-created-by-the-tallgreys]

Still, Think Creepy Pasta are all Just fantasy ?   

[mybrainpickings-blog]

The Importance of being 'Charming but Quaint' - A case for Teleological Thinking

" Aristotle and Plato thought that fire arose because it was reaching for the sky, it's natural home, and that stones fell because they were striving to get closer to earth, where they belonged".

Nature was seen as having a meaningful order. In such a world, everything existed  to fulfill a deeper purpose.

 However, with the advent of modern science, nature ceased to be seen as a meaningful order. Instead, it came to be understood mechanistically, governed by the laws of physics.

These days any attempt at explaining phenomenon in terms of 'purpose' is viewed upon as naive and too simplistic. But, interestingly, we still search for 'purpose of our lives' not in a mechanistic sense but in terms of a higher order of natural existence. I think  basic human nature is to view everything in terms of their holistic purpose; this temptation to see world as a purposeful whole(teleological reasoning) exists in children, but alas, only until we school them out of it.  

The only people who continue to live in a teleological cosmos are bound to be dreamers, writers, thinkers, philosophers or, maybe more likely, ' charming but quaint' folks. The problem is "having rejected teleological thinking in science , we are also inclined to reject it in politics and morals", which in my view creates fissures in our mental, spiritual and ultimately social lives. 

Quotes from : Justice - What is the Right Thing to Do by Michael.J. Sandel