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  1. Featured news and headlines | KU News

    LAWRENCE — The academic conference, where scholars meet to present research, exchange ideas and build professional networks, are…
    #Environment #Jayhawks #Kansas #KU #Lawrence #UniversityofKansas
    europesays.com/2986593/

  2. Hype for the Future 185/284: Route 59 Communities in Kansas

    Introduction The following content refers specifically to Route 59 located throughout the second-easternmost tier of counties in the State of Kansas, with a particular focus on the communities from Jefferson County southbound. Jefferson County Located toward the northeast corner of the State of Kansas, and in particular north of Lawrence, is Jefferson County, which uses Oskaloosa as the county seat and is at the N-92 junction. Old Jefferson Town is located within the community, providing […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  3. T.A.E.’s Book Review – Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence

    Planta Sapiens is not content to be merely informative; it is argumentative, provocative, and impatient with the old habit of treating plants as passive background scenery. Calvo and Lawrence present the plant world as a field of intelligence in its own right, arguing that we should borrow tools from animal cognition to rethink how plants perceive, learn, and respond. Even the official descriptions frame the book this way: plants “learn from experience,” communicate socially, make decisions, and even display individual differences that amount to something like personality. That is a bold premise, and the book’s title announces its intention to recast botanical life as a realm of sapience rather than silence. 

    What makes the book especially compelling is its philosophical framing. Calvo’s claim, echoed in adjacent commentary on the book, is that cognition is not a thing hidden inside a creature but something produced through relationship—organism and environment coupled together. In one of the book’s most arresting formulations, “Cognition is not something” the way common sense imagines it; rather, it emerges through contact with the world. That move shifts the discussion from whether plants have human-like minds to whether our concept of mind has been far too narrow all along. Read literarily, this is the book’s deepest gesture: it asks us to de-centre the human not by diminishing thought, but by multiplying its forms. 

    The prose and argument gain force from the book’s repeated insistence that plant behavior is not only reactive but purposive. A Yale overview of the book highlights examples such as wild strawberries learning to associate light with soil nutrients, flowers timing pollen production to pollinators, and plants “judging risk” in how they allocate growth. Another discussion of the book defines intelligence as behaviour that is “adaptive, flexible, anticipatory, and goal-oriented.” Those phrases matter because they show Calvo’s rhetorical strategy: he does not claim plants think like humans; he claims that life itself may already contain the germ of mind. The result is a text that is less interested in botanical trivia than in a reordering of the hierarchy between human exceptionalism and vegetal agency. 

    As a scholarly intervention, the book is invigorating; as a persuasive one, it is not without risk. Its language can be so expansive that skeptics may hear overreach where advocates hear liberation, and that tension is part of the book’s energy. The controversy is real, and the broader conversation around plant intelligence remains unsettled, with some researchers treating such claims as evidence of intelligence and others as a category mistake. Yet that unsettledness is precisely what gives Planta Sapiens its literary and intellectual charge: it is a book that wants to change not only what we know about plants, but the kind of readers we become in their presence. It is at once a scientific provocation and a philosophical re-education. 

    Overall, Planta Sapiens is a stimulating and serious book, best read as an ambitious act of intellectual re-enchantment. Its strongest pages do not simply tell us that plants are remarkable; they make the word “plant” itself feel newly strange, charged, and alive.

    #BookReviews #Botany #Calvo #environment #intelligence #Lawrence #LiteraryCriticism #NatalieLawrence #PacoCalvo #Plants #Science
  4. Hype for the Future 176H: City of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

    Overview The City of Lawrenceburg is a city located in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Tennessee, as well as the largest such community along the southern border of the State between Chattanooga to the east and Memphis to the west. Today, the area is located predominantly along Routes 43 and 64, with the David Crockett Memorial Statue, the David Crockett Office Replica and Museum, the James D. Vaughan Museum, and the Old Jail Museum.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  5. Hype for the Future 175I: Jackson, Lawrence, and Randolph Counties, Arkansas

    Introduction Within the northeastern portion of the State of Arkansas, west of Crowley’s Ridge and just east of the parallel eastern edge of the Ozarks, is a region associated with three (3) distinct counties in the area. The county seats are Newport, Walnut Ridge, and Pocahontas. Jackson County Within the State of Arkansas, Jackson County is associated with the northeastern portion of the state and is home to communities such as Newport and Diaz. Today, the City of Newport is associated […]

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  6. So much admiration for Clyde #Lawrence there. Nailing Rosanna in less than 30 minutes on the spot; nailing the (not super straight forward) chords, nailing the solo(s) almost perfectly, nailing the synth riffs on the Prophet, and most notably: getting called back by Greg Phillinganes.

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ql05dgG2720

    #Toto #Pianote #Rosanna

  7. Hype for the Future 101F: City of Bedford, Indiana

    Introduction The City of Bedford is the largest city in and county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana, in the United States. Located in Southern Indiana, the community and surrounding areas are associated with the historic significance of Indiana Limestone; however, additional attractions include the Wiley House, the Lawrence County Museum of History, and most notably, Bluespring Caverns Park. Travel The City of Bedford is accessible from external communities within the State of Indiana […]

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  8. Hype for the Future 101F: City of Bedford, Indiana

    Introduction The City of Bedford is the largest city in and county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana, in the United States. Located in Southern Indiana, the community and surrounding areas are associated with the historic significance of Indiana Limestone; however, additional attractions include the Wiley House, the Lawrence County Museum of History, and most notably, Bluespring Caverns Park. Travel The City of Bedford is accessible from external communities within the State of Indiana […]

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  9. Hype for the Future 101F: City of Bedford, Indiana

    Introduction The City of Bedford is the largest city in and county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana, in the United States. Located in Southern Indiana, the community and surrounding areas are associated with the historic significance of Indiana Limestone; however, additional attractions include the Wiley House, the Lawrence County Museum of History, and most notably, Bluespring Caverns Park. Travel The City of Bedford is accessible from external communities within the State of Indiana […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  10. Hype for the Future 101F: City of Bedford, Indiana

    Introduction The City of Bedford is the largest city in and county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana, in the United States. Located in Southern Indiana, the community and surrounding areas are associated with the historic significance of Indiana Limestone; however, additional attractions include the Wiley House, the Lawrence County Museum of History, and most notably, Bluespring Caverns Park. Travel The City of Bedford is accessible from external communities within the State of Indiana […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  11. Hype for the Future 101F: City of Bedford, Indiana

    Introduction The City of Bedford is the largest city in and county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana, in the United States. Located in Southern Indiana, the community and surrounding areas are associated with the historic significance of Indiana Limestone; however, additional attractions include the Wiley House, the Lawrence County Museum of History, and most notably, Bluespring Caverns Park. Travel The City of Bedford is accessible from external communities within the State of Indiana […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  12. Hype for the Future 100T: City of Mitchell, Indiana

    Overview The City of Mitchell is located in the southern portion of Lawrence County, Indiana, south of the larger City of Bedford. The birthplace of Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, the community is home to the Grissom Boyhood Home and the Grissom Rocket Monument. Also of cultural significance within the community is the Mitchell Persimmon Festival during the month of September each year. The primary access highways associated with travelers to the town from the immediate vicinity are State Road […]

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  13. Hype for the Future 77K: Village of Oak Hill, Ohio

    Introduction Though the Village of Oak Hill in Jackson County, Ohio, has a permanent population of under 1,500 residents, the community often appears to have a significantly larger personality for such a small town, containing the world’s largest acorn figure as well as a prominent sense of pride in the Welsh heritage associated with the region. The Welsh American Heritage Museum is located to the south within the village, while the outskirts include a number of scenic rural attractions of […]

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  14. A US appeals court on Friday ruled that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.

    A panel of the San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals sided 2-1 with a gun owner in ruling that the state’s ⭐️#prohibition against #open #carry in counties with more than 200,000 people violated the US constitution’s second amendment right to keep and bear arms.
    About 95% of the population in California, which has had some of the nation’s strictest gun-control laws, live in counties of that size.

    US circuit judge #Lawrence #VanDyke, who was appointed by Donald Trump, said the Democratic-led state’s law could not stand under the US supreme court’s 2022 landmark gun rights ruling.

    That decision,
    "New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v #Bruen",
    was issued by the court’s 6-3 conservative super-majority and established a new legal test for firearm restrictions.
    The test said guns must be “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation”.

    #VanDyke, whose opinion on Friday was joined by another Trump appointee, said the latest case
    “unquestionably involves a historical practice – open carry – that predates ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791”.
    (like child marriage and slavery)

    🔥Last #March, when an appeals court ruled that California’s law banning gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition can remain in place,

    Judge #VanDyke disagreed, and included a link to a #video of himself posted on YouTube in his dissent.

    “This is the first video like this that I’ve ever made,” VanDyke said.

    “I share this because a rudimentary understanding of how guns are made, sold, used and commonly modified
    makes obvious why California’s proposed test and the one my colleagues are adopting today simply does not work.”

    In the video, VanDyke handles several guns in his chambers
    and demonstrates how they are loaded and fired.

    He also shows high-capacity magazines and argues that they are no different from other gun accessories that could be added to a firearm to make it more dangerous.

    Under the majority’s logic, he said, that would allow the government to pick and choose any of them to be banned.

    Judge Marsha S Berzon criticized VanDyke’s video in a separate opinion,
    saying he was including
    “facts outside the record”
    and was, in essence, appointing himself an expert witness in the case.
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

  15. The Beatles became popular at The Cavern Club in Liverpool a few years back.

    The band Lawrence celebrated the recent end of their Family Business tour at that same place.

    Lawrence are Beatles fans, so they opened their set with some Beatles tunes.

    Here is that show:
    youtube.com/watch?v=tMbyg7pSpv8 (Four minutes of mic checks, then the show kicks off)

    #Music #Liverpool #Beatles #Lawrence #LawrenceTheBand #SoulPop #Soul #Pop #RandB

  16. Video ~ Kenya Inspector General Of Police Jailed 6 Months For Contempt Of Court ~ OsazuwaAkonedo

    Kenya Inspector General Of Police Jailed 6 Months For Contempt Of Court ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Aranduh #Gilbert #Igp #Kajiado #Kenya #Kindiki #Kithure #Lawrence #Masengali #Mugambi #Nairobi #Patrick #Police #Issues Published: September 14th, 2024 Reshared: September 14, 2024 2:10 pm Kenya acting Inspector General of Police, Gilbert Masengeli has been sentenced to

    osazuwaakonedo.news/video-keny

  17. Today is the day of Saint #Lawrence of #Rome (31 December 225 - 10 August 258). He is the #patron saint of those who work with open fires (#cooks, #bakers, #brewers, #textile cleaners, #tanners), of those to whom fire means harm (#librarians, #archivists, #miners, #poor people), and of #comedians.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_La

  18. Attention #Jayhawks:

    I’m super excited to say that you made FOTUS’ list of sanctuary jurisdictions, the only one in Kansas! Quite a badge of honor, I’m proud to have spent time there!

    Unfortunately, the geniuses at DHS identified #Lawrence as the “county” and Douglas County as the “city”, and since Douglas County City in Lawrence County doesn’t exist, I’m not sure whether Lawrence can actually claim this honor.

    In any case, good job! Stay blue!

    #RockChalk #KU #KS #Larryville #SanctuaryCity