Agent Smith: I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.

Can mushrooms save the world? 'It is no great surprise that the mess humans have made might look like an opportunity from a fungal perspective. Fungi have persisted through Earth's five major extinction events, each of which eliminated between 75 and 95 per cent of species on the planet. Some…

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Linguistical studies show every word is relative to a frame. The word axone comes from axo meaning aroma/smell and ne meaning deep/strong. Etymology unbeknown, could the mention of the word axone conjure memories of bad smells to those familiar to its taste and smell? …

Thinking through metalogues A conversation with my 4-year old Isaac: Can you play with me? Me: … I’m busy right now and I must finish my work. Isaac: Mommy, don’t you wish there was an earthquake just now and we could run and hide under the dining table together —…

Thinking about thinking

The perils of multitasking Daydreaming while Paddy discusses Varun’s iSearch The art of the unfinished Form vs detail Glass half full vs glass half empty (or in this case full to the brim or empty) My search for an answer, for finality for closure… next task, repeat. The luxury to pause Multitasking as a mask…

The art of fermentation When supermarket aisles lay empty early in the lockdown, my husband, Jo, brought home whatever essentials he could get his hands on — two packets of soybean lay in the pile. Odd to have not noticed it before like other lentils on supermarket shelves, given that…