“Is Planet Earth Alive?” with Ferris Jabr

Have you ever wondered what’s up with Earth? Seriously. What the actual heck. Of all those trillions of space rocks, this one is all leafy and watery and lifey. What is it, this spaceship we’re on, this pale blue dot? Might it be a kind of living thing itself?

This old hippy idea has been wrestled into a more fascinating, harder-headed thesis by the scientist and journalist Ferris Jabr. He's written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, National Geographic, Wired and The Los Angeles Review of Books; and he’s a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American. His new book is “Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life”.

If your idea of a good time is listening to a couple of nerds geeking out on evolution, the cosmos, consciousness, and what happened to woolly mammoths, this is the episode for you, baby.

[demonicaxeman]

Trees have stunning complex signs of life and they get their life force from their roots in the earth. This is equivalent of a red blood cell looking at fibers and wondering if the whole system it lives in is alive.

[New-Breed-Drywall-And-Paint]

Idk but the woman on Maury that was scared of cotton fibers is starting to look less and less funny to me . These fibers are alive