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BK 78 (Jan 7, 2025): The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Our Jan 7th meeting we will be discussing the book The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlanger  (May 7, 2024).  With 304 reading pages it is approximately 8 pages a day.  (We have 38 days to read but one less page over the holidays!) Check out the Bio, links and videos below: " NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER “A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of  Braiding Sweetgrass “Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful.” –Ed Yong, author of  An Immense World “Rich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!”  – Elizabeth Kolbert, author of  Under a White Sky  and  The Sixth Extinction  “A brilliant must-read. This book shook and changed me.” –David George Haskell, author of  Sounds Wild and Broken ,  The Songs of Trees , and  The Forest Unseen Award-winning  Atlantic  staff writer ZoĆ« Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the pl

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