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What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?

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I’d be lying if I said I understand everything Michael Levin believes. But I’m also not alone; sometimes his own colleagues can’t even follow his arguments. Elizabeth Weil’s profile of the renegade (and genius) biologist bridges that gap, sketching out Levin’s research and claims in a way that’s just grokkable enough to blow your mind. I mean this as a true compliment: When’s the last time we had a genuine mad scientist on our hands? Critics ac…

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What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?

Michael Levin, a Tufts biologist with a 40-person lab, has spent his life trying to prove that minds are hiding everywhere, from a plant to a scrap of skin to a single cell.

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