The Matter With Things, Iain McGilchrist
Rebel Wisdom
The Relationship Between the Right and the Left
Many medicines are poisons if given at a sufficiently high dose, but tiny traces of them can be enormously beneficial. Arsenic actually is another example. The little bit is quite beneficial, but more is not. And in connection with that, there's an interesting story from a biological, technological experiment called biosphere two. This was an enclosed environment which could be controlled and protected to see how species behaved when they were in an enclosed space. But the scientists were mystified by the fact that in this apparently ideal environment, trees rarely, if ever, achieved maturity before they fell over. It turned out that what they needed was the stress of winds blowing on them, and this caused the formation of
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