"According to Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt is the 'biological foundations that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal.'" from Wikipedia.

"'We have become divorced from nature, trapped in colorless boxes.'" from Outside.

"This means that there is a fundamental misadaptation between our present lifestyle and the one that our genes expect."

"The problem with these closed environments is that they make it more difficult to explore the adjacent possible, because they reduce the overall network of minds that can potentially engage with a problem, and they reduce the unplanned collisions between ideas originating in different fields." by Steven Johnson in the Wall Street Journal.

"From obesity to chronique fatigue syndrome, jihadism to urban ennui, the costs of civilization are becoming ever more apparent. Spencer Wells explores adapting to a world where accelerating change is the new status quo." from Seed.

layered accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by biofilms of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria.

the world from a plant's-eye view. from ted.

the mysterious powers of smell. from nyt.

precursors to math.

can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?

is language in our genes?