last semester!
Today I realized how many things I am doing this semester that I am terrified of. Tomorrow is my first day of PROJECT SHINE, where I am supposed to give ESL tutoring to elderly asian immigrants without a lesson plan (or at least one I eventually make myself.) By next week I hope to start conducting focus groups with some of the 44 names I have so far collected to participate in my honors thesis research. I have been doing pretty well things thus far, and as long as it never translates into my totally freaking out, I can see that fear will be positive.
I have been enjoying this book The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan. He explains his opinion that plants are using humans to their own benefit as much as humans are doing to them. He argues that in the same way that bees probably believe they are simply using flowers for pollen, we have convinced ourselves that we are in total control of our relationship with plants. But maybe growing some delicious fruit for humans to steal is a small price to pay for having them take care of your every need? Then he goes through the history of the relationship between humans and a few different plants. By random chance (since I usually don't read these parts of books) I saw a place in the back where he gave credit for his perspective on plants to David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants. I had previously seen this series from the library, and most people who read this have probably already had me force them watch pieces of it. Although it first seemed really sad and outdated that it used time-lapse photography, seeing plants this way completely destroyed my perception of plant life. It demonstrates very clearly plants involved in combat and aggression with one another, although these usually happen at speeds that block our perception.
Do you guys think that last paragraph could get me on reading rainbow?
Also, in the last two weeks I have listened to about 2 years of This American Life.
I have been enjoying this book The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan. He explains his opinion that plants are using humans to their own benefit as much as humans are doing to them. He argues that in the same way that bees probably believe they are simply using flowers for pollen, we have convinced ourselves that we are in total control of our relationship with plants. But maybe growing some delicious fruit for humans to steal is a small price to pay for having them take care of your every need? Then he goes through the history of the relationship between humans and a few different plants. By random chance (since I usually don't read these parts of books) I saw a place in the back where he gave credit for his perspective on plants to David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants. I had previously seen this series from the library, and most people who read this have probably already had me force them watch pieces of it. Although it first seemed really sad and outdated that it used time-lapse photography, seeing plants this way completely destroyed my perception of plant life. It demonstrates very clearly plants involved in combat and aggression with one another, although these usually happen at speeds that block our perception.
Do you guys think that last paragraph could get me on reading rainbow?
Also, in the last two weeks I have listened to about 2 years of This American Life.