I'm in Mexico City. This whole basin, the ancient lake bed, is a sort of lens focusing tectonic shocks and vibrations. This makes earthquakes here terrible and construction difficult. But there's a reason the city was built here, on such a deadly lens.

The roots of Indian corn plants pick up these vibrations and store the information inside the varied genes in multicolored ears. They hear every word spoken and every step taken on Earth. Why'd you think they're called ears? Are they ear-shaped? Of course not. They're named for their FUNCTION, not their looks.

And when an ear of corn is dried and ground, it retains the coded knowledge.

So Mexican shamans can learn nearly anything. They just roll up tortillas and stick them in their ears.

You think it's corny, but try it.

Listen. You can hear the sea. And a lot more than the sea...

WHEN I WOKE

• Mexico = my friend Mark just got back from living there for weeks with a farm family.
• Corn = perceptions and feelings I dismiss as corny?
• Vibration-lenses = just read a National Geographic article by my old teacher Ken Norris, who says belugas (small Arctic whales) have the best sonar of all cetaceans, to navigate through complex berg-filled Arctic seas. They use an oil-filled lens inside the forehead to amplify sonar pulses. The lens is called a "melon". My dream just switched food groups!
• Tectonic amplification = San Francisco, where I live, has some mudflat districts a lot like Mexico City's--quakes do get magnified.

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