![]() ![]() ![]() “The most famous anecdotes are tales of escape and thievery, in which octopuses in aquariums raid neighbouring tanks at night for food … Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights by squirting jets of water at the bulbs when no one is watching and short-circuiting the power supply. The octopus is, as it turns out, cunning and mischievous. ![]() How did it get this way? The creatures aren’t sociable, which is classically against how much of human intelligence came about.īut Godfrey-Smith notes these alien-like beings have a different type of social intelligence-interacting with prey and their ocean environment etc.įor scientists studying them, it’s a curious experience. The evolutionary journey of cephalopods is pretty remarkable. From that, as evolution took its course, came a sense of conscience and purpose. As billions of years back, animal brains were haphazard clumps of seaborne cells. It’s a story of how life came to be on this planet.Īnd the development of the mind. ![]() We’re not talking about genius here, but the eight-limbed molluscs are capable of problem solving abilities.Īnd they show a remarkable tenacity and sense of personality when dealing with the world around them.īut as a science book, Other Minds is much more than an account of the life of an octopus. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances. ![]() But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding-or if he even wants to. Everyone except Nastya who won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. ![]() When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett. Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. ![]() I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Her transfer to a new high school is intentional. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. Sea of Tranquility is about a high school senior who moves in with her aunt about two hours from her hometown. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A School Library Journal Best Book of 2013 An ALA/YALSA Alex Award Winner I live in a world without magic or miracles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Zoe Thorogood, Joe Hill's Rain (Syzygy/Image).(Image) Fantastic Four, Black Panther (Marvel) ![]() "You Get It," by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto, in Amazing Fantasy #1000 (Marvel)."Silent All These Years," by Margaret Atwood and David Mack, in Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (Z2)."Good Morning," by Christopher Cantwell and Alex Lins, in Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #4 (Marvel)."Finding Batman" by Kevin Conroy and J."The Beekeeper's Due," by Jimmy Stamp and Débora Santos, in Scott Snyder Presents: Tales from the Cloakroom (Cloakroom Comics).Traveling to Mars, by Mark Russell and Roberto Meli (Ablaze).Star Trek, by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Ramon Rosanas (IDW).Love Everlasting, by Tom King and Elsa Charretier (Image).The Atonement Bell, by Jim Ousley and Tyler B.Superman: Space Age, by Mark Russell, Michael Allred, and Laura Allred (DC).Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age, by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham (Marvel).The Human Target, by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC).Batman: One Bad Day, edited by Dave Wielgosz and Jessica Berbey (DC).Animal Castle, by Xavier Dorison and Felix Delep (Ablaze). ![]() |