page 11 she ends with who would want to live... I think this really is pushing her own Narrative on to the reader I'm asking them to think about the future in terms of her predictions.

Author: Scientist and activist- Quoted multiple studies and calls for awareness Audience: I think the author is trying to reach a large number of individuals and provide awareness. Most likely to read is probably students and other scientists as well as government Dealing with agriculture. Purpose: To inform those of the danger that pesticides can impose.

I really like this saying and it has such an impactful meaning

We need to have "cathedral thinking" thunberg

Humans have a long history of using things that are technically poisonous for themselves, lead paint is really amazing example of this. Not seeing this shouldn't be addressed just saying we've survived a lot of our own stupidities.

I do fear there is a lack of knowledge in what these chemicals can do long term not just in the short term.

that sucks

A great example of this is the Cane toad in Australia. Were introduced to get rid of pests and now have taken over.

this is called gene flow!!! the movement of alleles from one population to another.

I don't think that's true or very comparable. You have to think how much of a mass scale that we now produce food that wasn't possible even when agriculture existed earlier on.

lol ya I don't think we as a Society are going to look too smart. I also feel it relies a lot on context it's so easy to look back in the past and think how dumb but they only had so much knowledge at that time.

There was a video released of high schoolers during the Cold War asking what they wanted to do in the future. A lot of them replied there wasn't going to be one because of the nuclear war or that they didn't think it was going to be a good fucher. This of course didn't happen but you could see the fear in general ideology of the time. This has a very similar feel and I wonder if it was written in the same time farm or this Author was at a critical point in life when this happened to be so impacted.

Also isn't this kind of counterintuitive to what she was saying before where animals couldn't evolve fast enough for the chemicals we were creating? I totally get the point that yes we are creating an habitat that isn't livable but I just found it ironic.

Evolution at its finest

New genetic sequencing has allowed Certain farm grown plants to be selected to have a higher resistance to certain pests already coated into their genes. this allows for less sprays to be required.

how long does it stay?

what other things is it killing?

I went to Europe for the first time this summer and it was amazing what chemicals they didn't allow in their food in comparison to the US.

Not all life takes this long to adapt some can do it in just a couple of generations. This can be seen in Species that had a genetic bottleneck usually caused by a dramatic event.

this is called Bioaccumulation one of the most Famous cases are in fish.

I know there's still remaining traces of radiation in elephant tusks and in whales that can be tracked from individuals that were around when nuclear testing was being done.

This made me think of the cases the acid rain that happened in the US in the late 70's I believes. It was a result of the Air pollutants that acidified the rain but this has been reduced Just in my lifetime and is a great Example of change that can happen.

I don't think this is true, there's so many species that alter their habitat and the world around them. Just think of plankton and how they help build the atmosphere and creates most of the oxygen we use.

its so wonderful that you can see the relationship between sweet grass to humans on maps!

that's so cool!! I wonder wait other animals have evolved to befit their food source?

This sounds really to when an old tree falls in the woods and opens up a canopy and allows all these baby trees to shoot up really fast.

I feel like this is really obvious, but I didn't put two and two together until reading this. I thought mowing was to make it look good.

I love the author keeps returning to this phrasing.

I find myself thinking similarly for most Cases but am glad studies are being done to truly look into what is best for certain aspects of the natural world.

I hope her findings result in the basket weavers being able to harvest and continue their practices.

This really surprised me I thought the grass being pulled up in clumps would do worse.

There are so many species of plants that require animals to have then distribute seeds or help reduce overgrowth. We're looking up information on this particular grass I saw that it was from Europe and Asia not from North America. I wonder if in its native area there are animals that "harvest" this naturally.

It's cool that the contrast was so apparent

The American culture is not really set up to have a "Village" to raise a baby whereas the entire community be very intertwined with the raising of a child in an indigenous community.

I think this would be good for anyone and it sounds like a relaxing Activity.

what was Causing the plans to look sickly?I love her dedication!

lol ya, I don't think I have the patience for this kind of project

this something that happens to most Scientist at one point in their career or another. I think it speaks volume to the human capacity to love as well as the overwhelming necessary need for empathy that we can bring to so many aspects of our lives.

If anything, I think there's some kind of intrinsic value in what happens to your mindset in the Process of giving an offering

It wonderful that they even considered and had this conversation. I think if there were other Scientists in charge of this project it wouldn't have even been discussed.

whoo-hoo girl power!!

there is soooo much room for discussion!! there is so much in this world we don't know about or that needed to be discovered or totally rethought!!

when you put it that way lol I can see why they are skeptics, totally awesome places to get information thought!

I love that they reused the words of the Indigenous woman!!

this keep coming up in my evolution class. How the evolution theory is backed by facts etc. I totally agree with this, but it been said way more than I thought necessary this week.

I think this would destroy me a little if someone did this to something I would have put so much work into.

as an aspiring scientist my ego definitely wants to still call it a discovery.

I worked in a vet clinic and it's the same with all animals because you can't ask directly you just have to be observant. This being said once you truly start to pay attention animals are telling you exactly how they feel just in their own Language.

this is so thing that I hope to do with the science I contribute to the world.

it sounds like this author is communicating and working with the indigenous population to help Preserved traditional practices.

it sounds like this author is communicating and working with the indigenous population to help Preserved traditional practices.

this is a really wonderful way of communicating with others. I wonder what other signals people use in the natural world around them in their culture? I don't think I would Notice a knot of grass but I'm sure this is something that drastically stands out to her people.

is hay grass and" is a cool season perennial grass with rapid growth. The plant gets its name from Timothy Hanson" by Bonnie L. Grant

I feel as though this is a common theme with many indigenous cultures that live around the world. I think this ideology is so beneficial and allows indigenous groups to live in harmony with the environment they inhabit.

making an offering and to ask the plants if she can use them is such a foreign concept in American culture know.

who Exactly are her ancestors? What culture is she from? how is information passed through generations in this culture?

who is she talking to?

This first Couple of sentences are so descriptive I love it. I totally know exactly what the author is talking about and love that smell.

Author: Kimmerer, Robin A partner research scientist Text: Literature review paper

Audience: fellow Scientist, women Scientist, students, Indigenous groups... Setting: Modern science Purpose: Narration of the bridging between science and indigenous people with common communication.

1.) What other Indigenous knowledge could be translated into scientific research and proven? How can we create a better flow of communication between communities?

2.) Taking the Results from this experiment how can we implement this information into our own growing agricultural practices?