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What Makes Life Alive and Worth Living: Vasily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness

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What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.”

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”

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What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of Seeing and a State of Being

“You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky to roam at will through all the far provinces of light.”

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An Illustrated Field Guide to the Science and Wonder of the Clouds

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Reads tagged with “science”

What Makes Life Alive and Worth Living: Vasily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness

What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep

“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.”

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”

What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of Seeing and a State of Being

“You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky to roam at will through all the far provinces of light.”

An Illustrated Field Guide to the Science and Wonder of the Clouds

John Quincy Adams on Impostor Syndrome and the True Measure of Success

Thunder, Bells, and Silence: The Eclipse that Went Extinct

The Messiah in the Mountain: Darwin on Wonder and the Spirituality of Nature

Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing

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Reads tagged with “science”

“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.”

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”

“You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky to roam at will through all the far provinces of light.”

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