“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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“Fungus Theory of Conscious Growth” by Mark L. Christensen

Libraries have been referred to as “Universities of the People.” Mark L. Christensen has certainly spent some time in libraries, absorbing teachings from fields as disparate as astrophysics, to psychology, to cellular genetics. He rolls all this erudition up into a single theory he calls the “fungus theory.” File this one under “intellectually thrilling.”

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“Fungus Theory of Conscious Growth” by Mark L. Christensen

Humans as spores? A fungus as the source of all life? In Fungus Theory of Conscious Growth, Mark Christensen presents a serious, extensive theory—one that argues the universe is built to push life toward higher consciousness, and that humanity may be just one step in a much longer evolutionary chain designed to carry that growth beyond Earth and into whatever form evolution requires.

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