“The Super Seeders” by Miles Hillman

Why is it so important to save seeds? What is the point of traveling to other countries to gather seeds and plant roots? What is done with all of these seeds, and how do countries use them? These are just some of the questions that will be answered in the book The Super Seeders: How Plant Scientists Are Racing to Protect Global Food Security Amid Climate Change and Disease by Miles Hillmann. Hillmann traces the history of super seeders back to the very first person who had the foresight to start saving and preserving seeds. This alone is what eventually turned into a global program that would help fight hunger and combat agricultural problems such as plant disease and changing climate.

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“Kinship Medicine” by Wendy Johnson

In author and medical doctor Wendy Johnson’s new work, Kinship Medicine, the public health care expert starts with a quote from W. S. Merwin’s “Before the Flood,” the last couplet of which reminds us of something that seems, to me at least, to be getting more evident every day: no one believes the floods are coming, or else they or too overwhelmed to face it. Johnson certainly knows, and in this valuable new tome, which is part memoir, part ecological-historical-medical examination of the current state of affairs, she shows us just what we have done to the planet and how we can change, adopt new coping strategies, and heal the land and ourselves in the process.

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“The Coming Disruption” by Fred Voccola

In The Coming Disruption by Fred Voccola, the introduction comes in loud and thunderous. It’s like a wake-up call that Voccola wants the whole world to hear about AI being the near-apocalyptic force that comes in like a barreling force for practically every arena of modern society. He also likens AI to the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs and says that this is what will happen to anyone who doesn’t adapt; this includes businesses, government, and institutions, or they run the risk of becoming irrelevant.

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