Sources: evolution

Very useful and coherent argument that our standard conception of intelligence, and our many attempts to define it, is deeply anthropocentric and misguided in its tendency to look for intelligence as a thing present in entities we want to call intelligent, or as a property or product of some part of anatomy — like the brain.

Excellent antidote to the usual discussions and assumptions of intelligence and refreshingly free of firm conclusions.

Excellent and highly readable review of the rise of remarkable and controversial challenges to the standard model of evolution.

Don’t really inow what to do with this but I find it pleasing. A dead-pan intro about plant evolution concludes with the assertion that flowers appeared and invented love, and then led to everything we care about. The article is really an introduction to a work of musical and collage-animation art based on Emily Dickenson’s poem Bloom — the song is beautiful and Joan as Police Woman has a great voice.