The Modern Bestiary
This wild and wonderful list is excerpted from The Modern Bestiary. Mole Salamanders (Ambystoma spp.) “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle” was the 1970s Continue reading
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The Science of Citizenship
ONE OF THE MOST remarkable scenes in Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 work of science journalism, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, happens about halfway through the book, in a smoky Baltimore kitchen. Continue reading
Crowded Planet
Over the course of the past one hundred years, we humans have grown in population at a rate rarely seen outside of a petri dish. Alan Weisman, author of the best-selling Continue reading
A Wilderness of Thought
The blur of light conquers the dark. I awake dazzled. — David, age 11 THE WIND WAS SCURRYING across the streets of New York, and the children had just arrived at Continue reading