LEX: You think plants, like when you eat them, are they screaming?
LEVIN: Probably not screaming in the way that we would be screaming. However, there's plenty of data on plants being able to do anticipation and certain kinds of memory.
Here's my conversation with Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin) about biological robots and how to understand and control complex biological systems, including intelligent lifeforms on Earth and beyond. youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod…
I would tweet nothing but NYT obituaries if only the NYT didn't already take care of that. Here is another true gem, a graphic designer who created Beatlemania, directed a porn movie, played jazz with Charlie Watts, what a life.
nytimes.com/2021/11/16/arts/…
"punk rock Dorothy Parker" -- this is a good one
nytimes.com/2021/11/18/obitu…
HugoLindgren retweeted
The New York Times's official Wrens correspondent @HugoLindgren has an important update on the Wrens. nytimes.com/2021/09/20/arts/…
You can find Gail Sheehy's story on the excellent longform resource @TheStacksReader thestacksreader.com/a-fistfu…
... but because the issue includes a riveting, deliciously biased account by Gail Sheehy of how Rupert Murdoch swindled Clay Felker out of @nymag
To fund @nymag Clay Felker had played ball with Wall Street, which stacked the deck against him in a way he did not understand.
Helped my father in law Walter Bernard collect the last of his things from the building on East 32nd Street that he shared for 50 years with Milton Glaser.
Among the little gems I rescued from the trash bin was this issue of @Rolling Stone from 1977
Did anyone happen to notice this awesome, funny, totally entertaining book cracking the @nytimes nonfiction bestseller list?
But now @nuthousenj the first Oedipus and the Mama’s Boy to write a bestseller.
Love this Adam Schlesinger song — talk about finding poignancy in the mundane open.spotify.com/track/6FeBk…
Adam Schlesinger was the grandmaster of that. He could be funny and break your heart at the same time.
Next best thing to listening to his songs to remember him is reading this exuberant tribute by his buddy (and mine) @samiamhollander variety.com/2020/music/news/…






