Category: Gaia or Life on the Third Planet

Dear Earthlings:

you’ve faithfully followed this series to finally arrive at the beginning.  The two snapshots of this week are part of the symposium’s intro.  Who was Lynn Margulis?  With whom can we compare her?  Many names of great significance came up, including Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, and Humboldt.  But most of all she was free.  She thought with her own head and she was fearless.  And she was fortunate enough to be in a time and place where the potential of her being could be actualized.  And she was wise enough to stay in that space of freedom even when conforming would have been easier.  That’s why those comparisons are well deserved.  Authentic science is not science-for-profit, and it doesn’t come easy, yesterday as today.  But the mind is a wonderful machine and life a great experiment.  And if you’ve come so far in this mini journey, perhaps you’ve developed an appreciation for Lynn Margulis and her view of evolution.  Remember it’s very simple.  If the Gaia hypothesis is true, every time you feel like helping someone, every time that impulse to help gets a hold of you, every time you share resources, every time you’re frugal, every time you’re generous, every time you take care of an ecosystem near you, you’re simply acting according to nature and are helping the process of evolution one itty bit step further.  Isn’t that nice? 

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Dear Earthlings:

two important posts this week.  They came at the beginning of the conference about Lynn Margulis, from her son and co-author of many books and from one of her students.   They bring tidings of other avatars of Gaia theory and of what this all means when it comes to schools, textbooks, and children.

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Dear Earthlings:

how difficult it is for a genius to be appreciated in her homeland.  Often what we do reverberates far away and then comes back to us as the appreciation our neighbors would never give.  This also happened to Lynn Margulis. 

She interpreted the nucleated cell as a major leap in evolution, one that happens by collaboration.  Her taxonomy of species reflects this.  Many thought she was just disobedient.  After all why make a new taxonomy when one already exists?  Science is just habit, run-of-the-mill stuff, no? 

She also looked up scientists from the Soviet Union who had great ideas without the means to prove them.  She translated them and designed experiments to test these ideas.  Many thought she did not give proper credit and was not original.  After all, what comes from the Soviet Union is always suspicious, right?  Science is just an American way to reinvent the wheel, no?

Antonio Lazcano, from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, explains this, including how unfair it is to make these insinuations against Lynn Margulis.  How this parochial blindness only succeeds in keeping people in the United States ignorant about the value of her contributions.

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Dear Earthlings:

more snapshots this week.  What is science?  Who first talked about the “biosphere”?  Is music a form of knowledge too?  The big question come up when the topic is Lynn Margulis.  She was “fearless” her son Dorion Sagan says in Digital Journal.  That’s how she invented a new episteme, a new interpretation of what life is, from cell to cosmos. 

Douglas Zook, of Boston University, compares Lynn Margulis to Alexander Humboldt, a 19th century American scientist, pioneer of ecology and biosphere.  Like Morgan, he was a defender and advocate of indigenous people who saw the need to merge disciplines to look at the cosmos as a whole. 

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Read Victoria Alexander’s article on Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321533#ixzz1qfRQq68Y

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Dear Earthlings:

two more snapshots this week.  Astrobiology: the science that studies the life of astral bodies.  Oh my!  These are big questions for yours truly.  I’m an earth sign and my imagination doesn’t travel that far in space.  But yes, if Gaia, the third planet, has a “life,” a “biography,” so must other astral bodies too.  Lynn Margulis made contributions in this area too.  

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Dear Earthlings:

“A three-day symposium, “Celebrating a Life of Science: In Memory of Lynn Margulis,” was held [on] March 23-25th, at the University of Massachusetts, where Margulis taught evolutionary science for decades,” opens Victoria N. Alexander on Digital Journal.

Yours truly was blessed with being present at this momentous gathering of the minds.  From microscope to telescope, from cell to cosmos, Gaia is the overarching theory of the new era.  Lynn Margulis celebrated for ushering the new wisdom.  

Yours truly is happy to share snapshots of the speakers, with brief comments about their significance.

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