Peter D'Adamo: Generativity
Personal philosophic meanderings and forays into the root causes of healing.
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Vice Versa (opens the original)
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In Cambridge, England, sometime in the late 1920s, at an afternoon tea among scientists at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, the algae researcher Muriel Bristol declines a cup that Ronald Fisher had poured because he added the milk to the tea rather than the tea to the milk. She insists she can taste the difference, and prefers it made the other way.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i87Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A
Thank a Fungus Today (opens the original)
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Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplying those nutrients to plant roots. Without this vital connection, rocks stay rocks, and plants never occur.Fungi built their planet-altering ‘road’ networks through a process that began nearly half a billion years ago and fundamentally transformed the Earth's terrestrial ecosystems. These networks, primarily formed by mycorrhizal fungi, are intricate systems of thread-like structure
You Listen Where You Look (opens the original)
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The philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote that 'One sees only what one already knows and understands,' an idea that embraces an active, participatory view of perception. A new study on voluntary attention and acute inflammation intersects with this idea and extends it from experience into measurable biology.In the experiments, participants received an identical histamine skin-prick challenge. When they deliberately directed attention toward the resulting bodily sensations (itch, burning,
The Joy of Hex (opens the original)
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Despite my career in medicine, I’ve always fashioned myself more of a historian. In fact, every astrologer who's ever looked at my chart (not at my urging, but at the request of others) always says the same thing: I should have been a teacher, and I have a particular mark, apparently often seen in mentally incompetent people, that makes others want to take care of them.I accept these attributes because I know they are true. Back when we had supermarkets, my mother and grandmother would buy certa
The Man Who Married the Answer (opens the original)
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Little Known Fact: I was a guest on the second episode of the television show ‘The View.’ It was part of the author publicity tour for my first book. However, apparently, the first episode was such a dumpster fire that the producers came into the green room and told me and the show’s other guest (Barbara Walters’ former news co-host, Hugh Downs) that we would have to rein in the panelists, whom they described as being ‘out of control.’ Barbara, by the way, had just read my book Eat Right For You
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