Writing Science B (an essay published in Zeteo‘s Fall 2013 issue), was a thought experiment: imagining a possible though not actual science. In publication’s aftermath, however, I keep hearing news of scientists hard at work on projects that speak to one or another of the essay’s concerns. For example, in the final New Yorker of 2013, Michael Pollan writes about scientists who are investigating intelligence in plants. In what Pollan calls “a striking example of interspecies communication,” Suzanne Simard, a forest […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: animals, intelligence, inter-species communication, plants, science