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panic
pan - greek god of the woods

"he liked to trick people, to confuse and disorient them until they lost their bearings, and their minds. To panic was ti make an enemy of the forest. To stay calm was to be its friend."

"and yet she also believed that part of a mother's duty was to be her daughter's first, best critic; to fortify her during her childhood, so that in womanhood she could gracefully withstand any assault or insult launched in her direction."

but the women had discovered that survival is no more than putting off the moment of death.

alkaloids: morphine, cocaine, quinine

salicylic acid: base of aspirin

propolis

bee sons - drones: don't do work and don't sting

pupae, pupate

geophagy: earth eating

Caribbean Primate research center at the University of PR

141 rhesus macaques on PR island Cayo Santiago

Ayurvedic

primary metabolites - carbohydrates, fats and aminoacids

secondary metabolites - terpenes, alkaloids, saponins, quinones, flavonoidss

plants have been attacked by insects for hundreds of millions of years. Yet plants are still here. And that means they must be quite good at protecting themselves.

G. Fraenkel concluded that secondary metabolites are there for one major reason: to protect plants from insects.

medicating vs being manipulated by pathogens / prasites

hairworms in crickets

barber's pole worm in sheep

tears of chios

El Llamado, Luis Palés Matos

Rodrigo Escalante
El Libro Rojo de Mao
El Capital, Carlos Marx
libro de pensamientos de Mao Tse-tung