"Semiosis blurs the line between environment and infrastructure.... You do not maintain a sentient ecological partner the way you maintain a machine. You need a relationship."
What If Technology Were Alive? The Rise of Living Technology in Science Fiction - Business
Living technology asks a stranger question: what if infrastructure could grow, heal, reproduce, adapt, get sick, mutate, or form relationships with the people using it? That shift opens a different br...
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The Politics of Poverty in the Middle Ages - a brief history of how Europe went from protecting poor people to criminalizing them. Medievalists.net www.medievalists.net/2026/07/poli...
Time for a talk about the birds and the bees.
The Amazon’s Invisible Network: How Animals and Trees Sustain the World’s Largest Rainforest
By mapping interactions across more than 5,000 Amazonian tree species, researchers reveal that protecting the forest also means protecting its pollinators and seed dispersers.
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Every year, this maple tree in the park next door decides summer is over at the start of August. The tree is healthy. It just has an opinion about working overtime.
Technically, not in the Great Lakes but in rocks next to a Great Lake. Still, wow! They've been living there for 11,000 years.
The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi
Scientists have discovered an almost entirely hidden world of living organisms hundreds of feet below Earth's surface.
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Last Fridays Poetry open mic Friday, July 31, 7 p.m., at Esquina event space, 4602 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Supportive, all are welcome.
"Most importantly, regardless of scientific debates, no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights."
There is No Consensus on Biological Sex
At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr....
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i recommend @sueburke.bsky.social's "semiosis" saga to anyone who enjoys the children of time books. first contact with sentient plants, the struggles of communicating across species boundaries, a radically unique future society... they're fantastic.
A fantastic piece about the labor and craft of translation can be found in the first issue of Small Planet: a conversation b/w @cristinajurado.bsky.social and @sueburke.bsky.social : www.sfintranslation.com/wp-content/u...
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If you're a John Scalzi fan, here's your chance to send some money to World Central Kitchen.
Humble Book Bundle: The John Scalzi Collection: Old Man's War & More by TOR Books
Discover your new favorite author with this bundle of books from sci-fi humorist John Scalzi! Pay what you want and support World Central Kitchen!
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If a company would just once say 'make sure not to use the app' they would have my loyalty forever. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/app-6 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Every step you take, every move you make, I'm not stalking you.
Pumas are quietly tracking your hiking and biking habits better than you think
GPS collars and fitness-app traffic reveal that the Santa Cruz Mountains' pumas track human recreation patterns with surprising precision and adjust their lives accordingly—complicating old assumption...
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State fossils aren't going anywhere, at least.
Botany One@botany.one · 3mo agoWill State Flowers and Insects Leave Home? www.botany.one/will-state-f... State flowers and insects are meant to represent a place, but climate change may soon test how long those living emblems can remain in place. #Botany #PlantScience
