Exploring the Exploratorium in San FranciscoBy Henrike Holdrege The Exploratorium is perhaps the most famous science learning museum in the world. Talbott is honest, bright, and devoted to understanding the role of technology in our lives. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. Prior to this year I had a set of skull models of hominid ancestors that were helpful and engaging but left the impression that the story is sort of cut and dried. In this latest episode, Do Frogs Come From Tadpoles, Craig describes how his understanding of development was revolutionized by reconsidering frog metamorphosis from a new perspective.
Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. (For an audio version, this podcast episode features much of Craigs talk at the conference.). Jochen Bockemhl: A RemembranceBy Craig Holdrege Honoring the memory of a beloved teacher of Goethean science, Craig shares his personal experience of learning to observe phenomena with Jochen Bockemhl.
A Fresh Take on the Goethean ApproachBy Craig Holdrege A friend of the Institute offered us some valuable reflections upon the requirements for the kind of science we attempt to pursue. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. If you would like to receive either the hardcopy version or an email linking to the online version, please join our mailing list. This is a question generally ignored within biology. Love and Detachment: How We Can Reconnect with NatureBy Stephen L. Talbott To overcome our alienation from the world, it is not enough to immerse ourselves in nature.
The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. We welcome your comments! These animals manage to live naturally in what we can hardly help regarding as a remarkably harsh environment. "[1][3], Nature Institute researchers have written numerous books on science and technology, including Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering (Lexington KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008). Two QuestionsBy Stephen L. Talbott Here are presented the introductions to two new chapters of Steves book, Evolution As It Was Meant to Be And the Living Narratives That Tell Its Story. By willfully slowing down to observe, imagine, describe, and fully engage with the world around us even for just five minutes a day we can overcome the prevailing intellectual frame of mind that objectifies nature and, instead, enter into its aliveness.
Portraying Soils and Compost: Color, Form, and PatternBy Bruno Follador Bruno describes his work with chromatography as a tool for assessing qualitatively the condition of soil and compost. Shortly after publication of the hardcopy version, we place its contents online. A key lesson: the organism knows what it is doing with its DNA. Can Biologists Speak of the Whole Organism? The question, it turns out, betrays a grave misunderstanding of genes and people. Being with the World: A Pathway to Qualitative InsightBy Craig Holdrege Distilled from a keynote talk by Craig Holdrege given in February for an international Biodynamic Agriculture Conference on Qualities and Quality, this article illuminates the shift we can exercise from merely noticing and registering various natural phenomena to actively participating in their dynamic weaving.
For those of us living in northern climes, the Brazilian rainforest offers many revelations of an entirely different world. Read about staff activities at The Nature Institute and elsewhere. Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. Many different explanations have been offered, none of which have gained general acceptance. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. I had the class in multiple groups in the gym and found that they were deeply engaged in the process of sorting the skull images by what they believed to be the age. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. But Goethe began practicing it two centuries ago. Im not sure how many schools actually do this block, but we are lucky enough to have it here in Ann Arbor.
The ambition may be foolish, but huge resources are now being devoted to it, with grave implications for the biological future. A Commitment to the Phenomena of ColorBy Craig Holdrege A brief highlight of the work of Michael Wilson, who developed a disciplined, phenomenological approach to understanding light and color. Why Cant Evolutionary Biologists Quit Believing in Intelligent Design?By Stephen L. Talbott Intelligent design theorists have strongly tended to view organisms as machine-like devices engineered from outside by an external designer. The reminder is a useful one, so far as it spurs us toward efforts of understanding that are not cramped by prevailing dogmas. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Henrike shares some of those revelations here. The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. When Engineers Take Hold of Life: Synthetic BiologyBy Craig Holdrege What happens when genetic engineers, becoming yet more ambitious, begin to envision the synthesis of altogether new life forms, using Lego block-like BioBricks? A Way of Knowing as a Way of HealingBy Stephen L. Talbott Is there a name for what we at The Nature Institute do? Each small grayish-green bud swaddled in its leaf is inconspicuous, and yet, as Craig describes, is also a powerful image of becoming. In this in-depth article, he shares the dynamics of bloodroots development and its transforming activity in the world.
Ecological Agriculture Enters the MainstreamBy Craig Holdrege Brief review of two articles (one in Nature and one in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) supporting the idea of ecological agriculture. How can we best place ourselves in relation to the events that have unfolded over the course of the pandemic? The Intertwined Worlds of Zebra and LionBy Craig Holdrege Not only do the zebra and lion live in close relationship, but a study of either one can throw into relief the character of the other. The American Bison, Meeting Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), Natural Selection and the Purposes of Life, Understanding Mammals: Threefoldness and Diversity, Our Encounter with Institutionalized Dogmatism in Biology. Words of Dedication at the Founding CelebrationBy Henrike Holdrege Recognizing both how little and how much we can do and how much we depend on the work of others in our community. The book received very positive reviews in the press. What is the actual experience of visitors there? "[5], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}421555N 733602W / 42.265266N 73.600496W / 42.265266; -73.600496, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Nature_Institute&oldid=1077409378, Environmental organizations based in New York (state), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 March 2022, at 04:47.
Save the Phenomena: The Primacy of Unmediated Experience, Understanding the Nontarget Effects of Genetic Manipulation, Some Examples of Nontarget Effects of Genetic Manipulation, Putting Genetic Miscalculation on the Record, Morphological Effects of Genetic Manipulation, Can We See with Fresh Eyes: Beyond a Culture of Abstraction, Understanding Infection: Not a Battle, But a Housecleaning, Conversation Between Friends: An Inspiration for Goethes Phenomenological Method, Will Biotech Feed the Hungry? Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. Lets Loosen Up Biological Thinking!By Stephen L. Talbott Thinking in biology hasnt caught up with the results of contemporary research. In reality, we discover in every cell the power of the whole to express itself through its parts. There is no subscription fee, although we do encourage voluntary donations. Kevin Kelly founding editor of Wired magazine said NetFuture is "the best, most literate, and intelligent critique of technology available. DNA and the Whole OrganismBy Stephen L. Talbott We present here a few excerpts from a much longer article that attempts to show the place of DNA within the context of the cell and organism as integral unities. Where Does an Animal End? When Our Way of Knowing MattersBy Craig Holdrege A review of Peter Heussers Anthroposophy and Science.
But if they are to do this for science generally, they will first have to reconcile themselves to the character of the living, expressive beings that are the objects of their own study. In either case you will also receive occasional notifications about Institute activities. Looking Closer to Home, Commentary on DNA Barcoding in Bioscience, The Paradox of Physics Envy: The Mental Universe, From Two Cultures to One: On the Relation Between Science and Art, Genes Are Not Immune to Context Examples from Bacteria, The Trouble with Genetically Modified Crops, Widespread GM Contamination of Seed Supply, Love and Detachment: How We Can Reconnect with Nature, Life Beyond Genes Reflections on the Human Genome Project, The Implications of Kurt Goldsteins Holism, Genes and Life: The Need for Qualitative Understanding, Words of Dedication at the Founding Celebration, Ecological Agriculture Enters the Mainstream, The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. The debut of our full-color format in this issue of In Context is the perfect occasion for presenting some of the snapshots from that excursion. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. We do, however, welcome your comments. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Currently In Context is a strictly in-house publication; we do not accept manuscript submissions. How does she know the sex of the egg she is providing for?
Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. At 20-24 pages in length, In Context is produced twice yearly by our staff.
Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. The new 2022 spring/summer issue of our biannual publication, In Context #47, is your connection to the recent work of our staff. Inspired by shared research at the institute in the past year, Jon McAlice writes on the phenomena of warmth in this issues News section, where youll also find reflections by Ella LaPointe on participating in our Foundation Course. Genes and Life: The Need for Qualitative UnderstandingBy Craig Holdrege Reflections on the question, Which of our genes make us human? None of them and all of them. (Lets Take Living Things on Their Own Terms), Aldo Leopold and the Deeper Nature of Nature, Portraying Soils and Compost: Color, Form, and Pattern, An Open Secret The Calyx of Ipomoea purpurea, When Engineers Take Hold of Life: Synthetic Biology, Exploring the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Rooted in the World (excerpt from book, Thinking Like a Plant, Plasticity, Stability, and Whole-Organism Inheritance Unity, The Form of Wholeness: Henri Bortoft on Multiplicity and Unity, Education and the Presence of the Unknown, Holding Gently: A Story of Social Practice, Genetically Modified Corn Is Leading to Insect Resistance, Biological Engineering for Fun and Profit, A Modest Champion of the Whole Organism: Paul Weiss, Scientist of Distinction, The Experiment as Mediator of Object and Subject, A Shared Experience: Milkweed and Its Myriad Companions, Context Matters the Epigenetics Revolution, More Unintended Effects of Genetic Manipulation, A Critique of the Modern Gene From 1930.
In particular, an apparent taboo against any explicit acknowledgment of intention and agency in the cell and organism is a serious block to further progress in understanding. Seduced by AbstractionsBy Craig Holdrege Review of Jerome Kagans Three Seductive Ideas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). Maybe that is not such a bad place to start. Awakening to LandscapeBy Jochen Bockemhl A short excerpt and four drawings from Bockemhls book on relating to freshness in landscape.
Read Henrike Holdreges piece in defense of the human experience of color; a feature article by Craig Holdrege on creating a path of qualitative encounter with the world; and thoughts on the value of contextualizing numerical relations in nature, by physicist Gopi Krishna Vijaya. The Tyranny of a Concept: The Case of the Peppered MothBy Craig Holdrege A new book, whose writing was stimulated by an article Craig wrote, details the misguided history of evolutionary theorizing surrounding the peppered moth. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Michael Pollan, author and UC Berkeley professor, said "Holdrege and Talbotts analysis of genetic engineering is the smartest, most original, and most compelling I have seen anywhere, in journalism or academia"[4] and the journal Nature Biotechnology said "Under the heading of a 'delicate empiricism' the authors ultimately offer a well-written and engaging attempt at reconstructing just such a context-sensitive approach to biology that can be relevant to our contemporary needs.
He manages to host a conversation around his wonderful essays that actually moves issues forward. Programming the Universe: Are Animals Robots?By Stephen L. Talbott Why it may be more difficult to simulate a beetles mentality in software than a human beings. It happens that conventional biologists have a similar understanding, except that they call their designer natural selection. Both views share the same central difficulty: organisms are not machine-like devices, and are not engineered from outside. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified.
But there is a glaring inconsistency in the reasoning. We also ask for postage and handling costs from overseas subscribers. Out of the Life of the Dairy CowBy Craig Holdrege Craig shares with us an edited excerpt from a chapter on the dairy cow from his book Seeing the Animal Whole - And Why it Matters (Lindisfarne Books, 2021). What Is Life? The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. The Sensitive, Muscular CellBy Stephen L. Talbott The cytoskeleton and cellular membranes illustrate both the integral unity of the cell and also the temptation to isolate parts in our thought as controlling causes. Our Latest Podcast Episode Craig Holdreges work has long been concerned with studying biology in a fresh, experiential way that allows the organism itself to awaken new insights in the observer. Copies of Part I and Part II ($22 each, $35 for the set) can be ordered at our bookstore. The culmination of Henrike Holdreges many years of teaching projective geometry, her workbook series is now complete with the publication of Part II of To The Infinite And Back Again (The Evolving Science Association; 2021).
In 2005, the Institute's publications reached about 10,000 people. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. The ad would have featured our new kit on Diversity in Human Evolution and Craigs recent monograph, Do Frogs Come From Tadpoles? The Obscure Wisdom of the Potter WaspBy E. L. Grant Watson The amazing provision of a female wasp for its offspring. You can find a sample of an exercise from the book here, and a description of its content here. The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075.
Natures Revealing SurprisesBy Craig Holdrege This last summer Craig, who delights in finding anomalous plants, stumbled upon an unusual wild bergamot, which is in the mint family. Here he brings out some of the complex interrelationships among cows, their natural environment, and their human caretakers. Why Cant Evolutionary Biologists Quit Believing in Intelligent Design? This work raises interesting questions about the relation between qualitative and aesthetic considerations, on one hand, and the more conventional, quantitative methods for judging soil health and fertility, on the other. New Editions of Noteworthy Books An in-depth study of the heart, and a one-of-a-kind edition on animal forms, are new on our reading list. A New Monograph Ambitious in scope yet succinct in content, Craigs new monograph, Living Perenniality Plants, Agriculture, and the Transformation of Consciousness (New Perennials Publishing; 2021), combines a study of annual and perennial plants and the origins of farming with epistemological insights that call urgently for more biocentric ways of being in the world. about this particular plant.. This article is part of a longer book chapter entitled, Teleology and Evolution Why Cant We Have Evolution on Purpose?, which you can read here. 
The chapters are entitled, All Science Must Be Rooted in Experience and Why We Cannot Explain the Form of Organisms.. In them Schad introduces us to broad patterns among mammals that seem impossible to explain based on conventional biological thinking.
Last year I purchased the Diversity in Fossil History for my 12th grade Evolution block. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. Our Encounter with Institutionalized Dogmatism in BiologyBy Craig Holdrege The National Association of Biology Teachers apparently found two of The Nature Institutes publications a threat to the ideological purity of American biology teachers, and therefore refused to carry an advertisement from us in its journal.
Is a Science of Beings Possible?By Craig Holdrege Craig here continues his portrayal of the frog, begun in In Context #33. Try Goethean science. Or holistic science. Or phenomena-centered science. Or participative science. Or qualitative science. Or contextual science. None of them does it all, but perhaps you begin to get the idea.
Do Organisms Merely Survive?By Stephen L. Talbott To say that organisms strive to survive or, that an organisms traits can be explained through a process of random variation and survival of the fittestis to make a hollow statement. Read about activities at The Nature Institute and elsewhere. Read about activities at The Nature Institute and elsewhere.
The question is not what you look at, but how you look and whether you see.. It is a very different matter to explain the distinctive character of the organism that survives. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified.
Living Form in Mammalian BiologyBy Wolfgang Schad We offer here some excerpts from Schads newly released, two-volume English work, Understanding Mammals: Threefoldness and Diversity. (Maybe This Is the Wrong Question)By Craig Holdrege For a very long while biologists have sought to explain why zebras have their dramatic, black-and-white stripes. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. [1][2], The Institute's newsletter, In Context, published biannually since 1999, features articles addressing central questions concerning the methods of scientific inquiry and the role of technology in society, and presenting the results of biological research based on a phenomenological treatment of the organism as a whole.
The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. He has many suggestions for how to remedy the problem, beginning at an early age.
Here Steve examines the difficulties with this claim. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. About The Nature Institute's Mission In this short video, Craig Holdrege, the director of The Nature Institute, asks the fundamental question "Do we really see the world?" (The link here takes you, not to the version of the article in the printed newsletter, but to the latest version for the book Steve is working on.). In this article based on a talk that Craig Holdrege gave at an international Biodynamic Agriculture Conference in 2022, he describes a qualitative process of giving intention to the experience of encountering nature. Goethean Science?By Stephen L. Talbott On the difficulty of finding an appropriate name for a new kind of science. You can buy a print copy ($12) at our bookstore or download a free pdf of the text. Scenes of LifeBy Stephen L. Talbott A collection of striking vignettes drawn from life which remind us of the miracle that life can so easily appear to be. The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075.
Continue reading this extensive article or view our other virus-related articles: Some Comments on The Contagion Myth by Craig Holdrege and Jon McAliceViruses in the Dynamics of Life by Craig Holdrege, July 10 July 22, 2022 | Final residential intensive for Cohort IIIFoundation Course with Craig Holdrege, Henrike Holdrege, Jon McAlice, and John Gouldthorpe. Craig reviews some of these proposed explanations, and along the way gives us an appreciation of the stripes in their own terms. Qualities of Number in Relation to Nature By Gopi Krishna Vijaya Numbers are embedded in contexts that can reveal additional qualities such as inwardness, fixedness, flexibility, or disconnectedness if we can train ourselves to see them. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. Why Does a Zebra Have Stripes? The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. The next day when I passed out the table showing the ages, they were quite shocked to see that the patterns they thought had so neatly evolved over time came and went in the sequence in startling ways. It has been a time when, to paraphrase Goethe, Nature wakens us.
Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. (For an audio version, this podcast episode features much of Craigs talk at the conference.). Jochen Bockemhl: A RemembranceBy Craig Holdrege Honoring the memory of a beloved teacher of Goethean science, Craig shares his personal experience of learning to observe phenomena with Jochen Bockemhl.
A Fresh Take on the Goethean ApproachBy Craig Holdrege A friend of the Institute offered us some valuable reflections upon the requirements for the kind of science we attempt to pursue. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. If you would like to receive either the hardcopy version or an email linking to the online version, please join our mailing list. This is a question generally ignored within biology. Love and Detachment: How We Can Reconnect with NatureBy Stephen L. Talbott To overcome our alienation from the world, it is not enough to immerse ourselves in nature.
The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. We welcome your comments! These animals manage to live naturally in what we can hardly help regarding as a remarkably harsh environment. "[1][3], Nature Institute researchers have written numerous books on science and technology, including Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering (Lexington KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008). Two QuestionsBy Stephen L. Talbott Here are presented the introductions to two new chapters of Steves book, Evolution As It Was Meant to Be And the Living Narratives That Tell Its Story. By willfully slowing down to observe, imagine, describe, and fully engage with the world around us even for just five minutes a day we can overcome the prevailing intellectual frame of mind that objectifies nature and, instead, enter into its aliveness.
Portraying Soils and Compost: Color, Form, and PatternBy Bruno Follador Bruno describes his work with chromatography as a tool for assessing qualitatively the condition of soil and compost. Shortly after publication of the hardcopy version, we place its contents online. A key lesson: the organism knows what it is doing with its DNA. Can Biologists Speak of the Whole Organism? The question, it turns out, betrays a grave misunderstanding of genes and people. Being with the World: A Pathway to Qualitative InsightBy Craig Holdrege Distilled from a keynote talk by Craig Holdrege given in February for an international Biodynamic Agriculture Conference on Qualities and Quality, this article illuminates the shift we can exercise from merely noticing and registering various natural phenomena to actively participating in their dynamic weaving.
For those of us living in northern climes, the Brazilian rainforest offers many revelations of an entirely different world. Read about staff activities at The Nature Institute and elsewhere. Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. Many different explanations have been offered, none of which have gained general acceptance. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. I had the class in multiple groups in the gym and found that they were deeply engaged in the process of sorting the skull images by what they believed to be the age. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. But Goethe began practicing it two centuries ago. Im not sure how many schools actually do this block, but we are lucky enough to have it here in Ann Arbor.
The ambition may be foolish, but huge resources are now being devoted to it, with grave implications for the biological future. A Commitment to the Phenomena of ColorBy Craig Holdrege A brief highlight of the work of Michael Wilson, who developed a disciplined, phenomenological approach to understanding light and color. Why Cant Evolutionary Biologists Quit Believing in Intelligent Design?By Stephen L. Talbott Intelligent design theorists have strongly tended to view organisms as machine-like devices engineered from outside by an external designer. The reminder is a useful one, so far as it spurs us toward efforts of understanding that are not cramped by prevailing dogmas. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Henrike shares some of those revelations here. The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. When Engineers Take Hold of Life: Synthetic BiologyBy Craig Holdrege What happens when genetic engineers, becoming yet more ambitious, begin to envision the synthesis of altogether new life forms, using Lego block-like BioBricks? A Way of Knowing as a Way of HealingBy Stephen L. Talbott Is there a name for what we at The Nature Institute do? Each small grayish-green bud swaddled in its leaf is inconspicuous, and yet, as Craig describes, is also a powerful image of becoming. In this in-depth article, he shares the dynamics of bloodroots development and its transforming activity in the world. Ecological Agriculture Enters the MainstreamBy Craig Holdrege Brief review of two articles (one in Nature and one in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) supporting the idea of ecological agriculture. How can we best place ourselves in relation to the events that have unfolded over the course of the pandemic? The Intertwined Worlds of Zebra and LionBy Craig Holdrege Not only do the zebra and lion live in close relationship, but a study of either one can throw into relief the character of the other. The American Bison, Meeting Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), Natural Selection and the Purposes of Life, Understanding Mammals: Threefoldness and Diversity, Our Encounter with Institutionalized Dogmatism in Biology. Words of Dedication at the Founding CelebrationBy Henrike Holdrege Recognizing both how little and how much we can do and how much we depend on the work of others in our community. The book received very positive reviews in the press. What is the actual experience of visitors there? "[5], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}421555N 733602W / 42.265266N 73.600496W / 42.265266; -73.600496, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Nature_Institute&oldid=1077409378, Environmental organizations based in New York (state), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 March 2022, at 04:47.
Save the Phenomena: The Primacy of Unmediated Experience, Understanding the Nontarget Effects of Genetic Manipulation, Some Examples of Nontarget Effects of Genetic Manipulation, Putting Genetic Miscalculation on the Record, Morphological Effects of Genetic Manipulation, Can We See with Fresh Eyes: Beyond a Culture of Abstraction, Understanding Infection: Not a Battle, But a Housecleaning, Conversation Between Friends: An Inspiration for Goethes Phenomenological Method, Will Biotech Feed the Hungry? Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. Lets Loosen Up Biological Thinking!By Stephen L. Talbott Thinking in biology hasnt caught up with the results of contemporary research. In reality, we discover in every cell the power of the whole to express itself through its parts. There is no subscription fee, although we do encourage voluntary donations. Kevin Kelly founding editor of Wired magazine said NetFuture is "the best, most literate, and intelligent critique of technology available. DNA and the Whole OrganismBy Stephen L. Talbott We present here a few excerpts from a much longer article that attempts to show the place of DNA within the context of the cell and organism as integral unities. Where Does an Animal End? When Our Way of Knowing MattersBy Craig Holdrege A review of Peter Heussers Anthroposophy and Science.
But if they are to do this for science generally, they will first have to reconcile themselves to the character of the living, expressive beings that are the objects of their own study. In either case you will also receive occasional notifications about Institute activities. Looking Closer to Home, Commentary on DNA Barcoding in Bioscience, The Paradox of Physics Envy: The Mental Universe, From Two Cultures to One: On the Relation Between Science and Art, Genes Are Not Immune to Context Examples from Bacteria, The Trouble with Genetically Modified Crops, Widespread GM Contamination of Seed Supply, Love and Detachment: How We Can Reconnect with Nature, Life Beyond Genes Reflections on the Human Genome Project, The Implications of Kurt Goldsteins Holism, Genes and Life: The Need for Qualitative Understanding, Words of Dedication at the Founding Celebration, Ecological Agriculture Enters the Mainstream, The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. The debut of our full-color format in this issue of In Context is the perfect occasion for presenting some of the snapshots from that excursion. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. We do, however, welcome your comments. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Currently In Context is a strictly in-house publication; we do not accept manuscript submissions. How does she know the sex of the egg she is providing for?
Read about events at The Nature Institute and activities by our staff. At 20-24 pages in length, In Context is produced twice yearly by our staff.
Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. The new 2022 spring/summer issue of our biannual publication, In Context #47, is your connection to the recent work of our staff. Inspired by shared research at the institute in the past year, Jon McAlice writes on the phenomena of warmth in this issues News section, where youll also find reflections by Ella LaPointe on participating in our Foundation Course. Genes and Life: The Need for Qualitative UnderstandingBy Craig Holdrege Reflections on the question, Which of our genes make us human? None of them and all of them. (Lets Take Living Things on Their Own Terms), Aldo Leopold and the Deeper Nature of Nature, Portraying Soils and Compost: Color, Form, and Pattern, An Open Secret The Calyx of Ipomoea purpurea, When Engineers Take Hold of Life: Synthetic Biology, Exploring the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Rooted in the World (excerpt from book, Thinking Like a Plant, Plasticity, Stability, and Whole-Organism Inheritance Unity, The Form of Wholeness: Henri Bortoft on Multiplicity and Unity, Education and the Presence of the Unknown, Holding Gently: A Story of Social Practice, Genetically Modified Corn Is Leading to Insect Resistance, Biological Engineering for Fun and Profit, A Modest Champion of the Whole Organism: Paul Weiss, Scientist of Distinction, The Experiment as Mediator of Object and Subject, A Shared Experience: Milkweed and Its Myriad Companions, Context Matters the Epigenetics Revolution, More Unintended Effects of Genetic Manipulation, A Critique of the Modern Gene From 1930.
In particular, an apparent taboo against any explicit acknowledgment of intention and agency in the cell and organism is a serious block to further progress in understanding. Seduced by AbstractionsBy Craig Holdrege Review of Jerome Kagans Three Seductive Ideas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). Maybe that is not such a bad place to start. Awakening to LandscapeBy Jochen Bockemhl A short excerpt and four drawings from Bockemhls book on relating to freshness in landscape.
Read Henrike Holdreges piece in defense of the human experience of color; a feature article by Craig Holdrege on creating a path of qualitative encounter with the world; and thoughts on the value of contextualizing numerical relations in nature, by physicist Gopi Krishna Vijaya. The Tyranny of a Concept: The Case of the Peppered MothBy Craig Holdrege A new book, whose writing was stimulated by an article Craig wrote, details the misguided history of evolutionary theorizing surrounding the peppered moth. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Michael Pollan, author and UC Berkeley professor, said "Holdrege and Talbotts analysis of genetic engineering is the smartest, most original, and most compelling I have seen anywhere, in journalism or academia"[4] and the journal Nature Biotechnology said "Under the heading of a 'delicate empiricism' the authors ultimately offer a well-written and engaging attempt at reconstructing just such a context-sensitive approach to biology that can be relevant to our contemporary needs.
He manages to host a conversation around his wonderful essays that actually moves issues forward. Programming the Universe: Are Animals Robots?By Stephen L. Talbott Why it may be more difficult to simulate a beetles mentality in software than a human beings. It happens that conventional biologists have a similar understanding, except that they call their designer natural selection. Both views share the same central difficulty: organisms are not machine-like devices, and are not engineered from outside. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified.
But there is a glaring inconsistency in the reasoning. We also ask for postage and handling costs from overseas subscribers. Out of the Life of the Dairy CowBy Craig Holdrege Craig shares with us an edited excerpt from a chapter on the dairy cow from his book Seeing the Animal Whole - And Why it Matters (Lindisfarne Books, 2021). What Is Life? The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. The Sensitive, Muscular CellBy Stephen L. Talbott The cytoskeleton and cellular membranes illustrate both the integral unity of the cell and also the temptation to isolate parts in our thought as controlling causes. Our Latest Podcast Episode Craig Holdreges work has long been concerned with studying biology in a fresh, experiential way that allows the organism itself to awaken new insights in the observer. Copies of Part I and Part II ($22 each, $35 for the set) can be ordered at our bookstore. The culmination of Henrike Holdreges many years of teaching projective geometry, her workbook series is now complete with the publication of Part II of To The Infinite And Back Again (The Evolving Science Association; 2021).
In 2005, the Institute's publications reached about 10,000 people. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. The ad would have featured our new kit on Diversity in Human Evolution and Craigs recent monograph, Do Frogs Come From Tadpoles? The Obscure Wisdom of the Potter WaspBy E. L. Grant Watson The amazing provision of a female wasp for its offspring. You can find a sample of an exercise from the book here, and a description of its content here. The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075.
Natures Revealing SurprisesBy Craig Holdrege This last summer Craig, who delights in finding anomalous plants, stumbled upon an unusual wild bergamot, which is in the mint family. Here he brings out some of the complex interrelationships among cows, their natural environment, and their human caretakers. Why Cant Evolutionary Biologists Quit Believing in Intelligent Design? This work raises interesting questions about the relation between qualitative and aesthetic considerations, on one hand, and the more conventional, quantitative methods for judging soil health and fertility, on the other. New Editions of Noteworthy Books An in-depth study of the heart, and a one-of-a-kind edition on animal forms, are new on our reading list. A New Monograph Ambitious in scope yet succinct in content, Craigs new monograph, Living Perenniality Plants, Agriculture, and the Transformation of Consciousness (New Perennials Publishing; 2021), combines a study of annual and perennial plants and the origins of farming with epistemological insights that call urgently for more biocentric ways of being in the world. about this particular plant.. This article is part of a longer book chapter entitled, Teleology and Evolution Why Cant We Have Evolution on Purpose?, which you can read here. The chapters are entitled, All Science Must Be Rooted in Experience and Why We Cannot Explain the Form of Organisms.. In them Schad introduces us to broad patterns among mammals that seem impossible to explain based on conventional biological thinking.
Last year I purchased the Diversity in Fossil History for my 12th grade Evolution block. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. Our Encounter with Institutionalized Dogmatism in BiologyBy Craig Holdrege The National Association of Biology Teachers apparently found two of The Nature Institutes publications a threat to the ideological purity of American biology teachers, and therefore refused to carry an advertisement from us in its journal.
Is a Science of Beings Possible?By Craig Holdrege Craig here continues his portrayal of the frog, begun in In Context #33. Try Goethean science. Or holistic science. Or phenomena-centered science. Or participative science. Or qualitative science. Or contextual science. None of them does it all, but perhaps you begin to get the idea. Do Organisms Merely Survive?By Stephen L. Talbott To say that organisms strive to survive or, that an organisms traits can be explained through a process of random variation and survival of the fittestis to make a hollow statement. Read about activities at The Nature Institute and elsewhere. Read about activities at The Nature Institute and elsewhere.
The question is not what you look at, but how you look and whether you see.. It is a very different matter to explain the distinctive character of the organism that survives. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified.
Living Form in Mammalian BiologyBy Wolfgang Schad We offer here some excerpts from Schads newly released, two-volume English work, Understanding Mammals: Threefoldness and Diversity. (Maybe This Is the Wrong Question)By Craig Holdrege For a very long while biologists have sought to explain why zebras have their dramatic, black-and-white stripes. The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. [1][2], The Institute's newsletter, In Context, published biannually since 1999, features articles addressing central questions concerning the methods of scientific inquiry and the role of technology in society, and presenting the results of biological research based on a phenomenological treatment of the organism as a whole.
The Nature Institute has developed an approach to nature that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic what we often call Goethean science, a mode of inquiry that the poet and scientist Goethe exemplified. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. He has many suggestions for how to remedy the problem, beginning at an early age.
Here Steve examines the difficulties with this claim. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. About The Nature Institute's Mission In this short video, Craig Holdrege, the director of The Nature Institute, asks the fundamental question "Do we really see the world?" (The link here takes you, not to the version of the article in the printed newsletter, but to the latest version for the book Steve is working on.). In this article based on a talk that Craig Holdrege gave at an international Biodynamic Agriculture Conference in 2022, he describes a qualitative process of giving intention to the experience of encountering nature. Goethean Science?By Stephen L. Talbott On the difficulty of finding an appropriate name for a new kind of science. You can buy a print copy ($12) at our bookstore or download a free pdf of the text. Scenes of LifeBy Stephen L. Talbott A collection of striking vignettes drawn from life which remind us of the miracle that life can so easily appear to be. The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075.
Continue reading this extensive article or view our other virus-related articles: Some Comments on The Contagion Myth by Craig Holdrege and Jon McAliceViruses in the Dynamics of Life by Craig Holdrege, July 10 July 22, 2022 | Final residential intensive for Cohort IIIFoundation Course with Craig Holdrege, Henrike Holdrege, Jon McAlice, and John Gouldthorpe. Craig reviews some of these proposed explanations, and along the way gives us an appreciation of the stripes in their own terms. Qualities of Number in Relation to Nature By Gopi Krishna Vijaya Numbers are embedded in contexts that can reveal additional qualities such as inwardness, fixedness, flexibility, or disconnectedness if we can train ourselves to see them. Heredity, Epigenetics, & Genetic Engineering. Why Does a Zebra Have Stripes? The Nature Institute | 20 May Hill Road | Ghent, New York, 12075. The next day when I passed out the table showing the ages, they were quite shocked to see that the patterns they thought had so neatly evolved over time came and went in the sequence in startling ways. It has been a time when, to paraphrase Goethe, Nature wakens us.