Katherine Geiersbach
@kat-her-ine-g.bsky.social
Lab genetics professional, amateur musician, writer, mentor, mother, friend. Views are my own.
Here’s a fascinating story of a plant geneticist and his heroic efforts to end world hunger. Tragically, he was brutalized by Stalin’s dictatorship. This account by Maria Popova is eerily reminiscent of our current political climate. www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/08/n...
Nikolai Vavilov and the Living Library of Resilience: The Story of the World’s First Seed Bank and the Tragic Hero of Science Who Set Out to End Humanity’s Suffering
The most moving story of self-sacrifice in the history of science.
www.themarginalian.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Here’s a fascinating story of a plant geneticist and his heroic efforts to end world hunger. Tragically, he was brutalized by Stalin’s dictatorship. This account by Maria Popova is eerily reminiscent of our current political climate. www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/08/n...
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, “The Serviceberry,” started as an essay for Emergence magazine. She reminds us that all flourishing is mutual, and her ideas are a powerful antidote to the “art of the deal” and the unbridled greed that is devastating our society emergencemagazine.org/conversation...
Practical Reverence – with Robin Wall Kimmerer
In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and grat...
emergencemagazine.org
March 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, “The Serviceberry,” started as an essay for Emergence magazine. She reminds us that all flourishing is mutual, and her ideas are a powerful antidote to the “art of the deal” and the unbridled greed that is devastating our society emergencemagazine.org/conversation...
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5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
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February 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I picked up this book recently and found it perfect, both on a personal level and on the level of the collective consciousness of our time.
January 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I picked up this book recently and found it perfect, both on a personal level and on the level of the collective consciousness of our time.
Fascinating article on the new science of sleep and its role in aging. As an occasional user of the drug Ambien, I feel validated in my caution around this drug; the science suggests that Ambien impairs waste clearance from the brain. erictopol.substack.com/p/our-sleep-...
Our Sleep, Brain Aging, and Waste Clearance
How sleep prevents "dirty" brains that age faster
erictopol.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Fascinating article on the new science of sleep and its role in aging. As an occasional user of the drug Ambien, I feel validated in my caution around this drug; the science suggests that Ambien impairs waste clearance from the brain. erictopol.substack.com/p/our-sleep-...