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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Science and nature books,Philosophy books,Science,Psychology 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Several years ago, Michael Pollan had a disturbing encounter. The relentlessly curious journalist and author was at a conference on plant behaviour in Vancouver. There, he’d learned that when plants are damaged, they produce an anaesthetising chemical, ethylene. Was this a form of self-soothing, like the release of endorphins after an injury in humans? He asked František Baluška, a cell biologist, if it meant that plants might feel pain. Baluška paused, before answering: “Yes, they should feel pain.…

💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Autobiography and memoir,Mark Haddon,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ATrying to psychoanalyze a literary work is a fool's errand, for obvious reasons: you're trying to assess inside the writer's head from inside your own, using an inherently deceptive device. The aim on their part, of course, is always to deceive, and often to deceive.However, sometimes the temptation is too great to resist. Mark Haddon, whose acerbic memoir describes a miserable, loveless childhood and an adulthood full of great obstacles, hit the literary major with 2003's The Curious Incident…