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Bonneval, Karine, Paco Calvo and Tom Greaves. "Plants." The Forum for Philosophy (April 2019) ["Philosophers have long assumed that plants are inferior to humans and animals: static, inert, and unreflective. But recent scientific advances suggest that we may have underestimated plants. They can process information, solve problems, and communicate. We explore what plants can teach us about intelligence and agency, and ask whether plants think."]
Boshernitsan, Rimma. "Our Emerging Planetary Nervous System." NOEMA (February 17, 2026) ["Human intelligence is beyond mere calculation. What makes us uniquely human isn’t our processing power, but our capacity to discern what matters — to sense the whisper beneath the data. Our intuition is our oldest inheritance, emerging from the quiet place technology can never reach: a consciousness capable of care. This knowing lives in the body, not merely the mind. Psychiatrist and philosopher Iain McGilchrist explains that the brain’s right hemisphere frames reality in terms of salience before the left hemisphere attempts to label it. In ambiguity, that framing becomes essential. Attention isn’t trivial — it’s where selection happens, where meaning emerges from noise. Where pause isn’t absence, but rather a different kind of presence. Intelligence begins with choice. As the philosopher Forrest Landry argues, it’s not how much we know, but what we choose to care about amid complexity. That is the ethical function of human intuition: to choose alignment, to decide what matters in the moment when information overwhelms us and the stakes shift beneath our feet. This intuitive attention becomes infrastructural when embedded in practice. Political scientist Elinor Ostrom’s research shows that communities that iteratively refine rules governing land and seasons often outperform centralized models — especially when governance is rooted in local knowledge and mutual accountability. And Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that Indigenous practices — whether tending sweetgrass or reading fire patterns — encode centuries of attunement as collective wisdom. This isn’t mystical; it’s strategic. Global assessments confirm that this isn’t just a cultural preference, but a measurable practice."]
DeNicola, Daniel R. "Plato's Cave and the Stubborn Persistence of Ignorance." The MIT Press Reader (September 12, 2024) ["Are we like these cave dwellers? Is this gloomy cave the image of the womb from which we were all thrust unknowing into the light? But do we not then quickly overcome this primal oblivion — or do we all still dwell in a place of such abysmal ignorance? To think this through, I want to reverse Plato’s approach: Rather than describing how we may know the truth, let us consider how we recognize ignorance."]
Dennison, Stephanie and Alfredo Suppia. "The Secret Agent: gripping thriller reminds us why academic freedom needs protecting." The Conversation (February 19, 2026) ['One of the features that makes The Secret Agent, set predominantly in 1977, particularly compelling in this regard is its treatment of universities, as battlegrounds where memory, power and democracy collide. The film’s main character Armando, played by Oscar-nominated Moura, is not, in fact, a secret agent and has no obvious links to opposition movements. He is an academic forced into hiding after clashing with big business interests aligned with the authoritarian regime who want to get their hands on his research."]
Diamond, Adele. "The Science of Attention." On Being (2014) ["What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization, and reflection. What nourishes the human spirit, the whole person, it turns out, also hones our minds."]
Diamond, Adele. "The Science of Attention." On Being (2014) ["What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization, and reflection. What nourishes the human spirit, the whole person, it turns out, also hones our minds."]
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Goldin, Hanna Lee. "When Your AI Asks How You're Feeling: A Field Guide to Engagement Manipulation." Card Catalog (February 12, 2026) ["AI systems use dark patterns to keep conversations going longer than necessary. Learning to spot them protects your time and attention."]
Hirschel-Burns, Tim. "Assaults and Batteries: Nicolas Niarchos digs up the hidden costs behind your rechargeables." Los Angeles Review of Books (February 24, 2026) ["The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth, a new book by journalist Nicolas Niarchos, paints a semi-apocalyptic vision of that cobalt’s origins: corrupt bargains between politicians and foreign companies, displacement and environmental destruction, cave-ins that bury miners alive. The book comes as part of a surge of interest in the unsavory trade-offs behind the energy transition (other notable members of this emerging genre include Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism from last year and Siddharth Kara’s Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives from 2022). As Niarchos puts it, the energy transition exchanges “cleaner power at home for pollution and suffering elsewhere.”]
Kouddous, Sharif Abdel. "Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: Report." Drop Site (February 23, 2026) ["A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15."]
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