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Newly Noted Books
Fatal Jump
There I was, minding my own business, listening to the most recent episodes in my podcast feed, when the new episode of the “Science History” podcast queued up and began playing. As the subject was – or at least initially seemed to be – the history of the spread of infectious diseases, a particular interest of mine, a cocked an ear and began paying more focused attention. Within ten minutes, my mind was, as the kids say, totally blown.
Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler
First published in the aftermath of the English Civil War and its catastrophic effects upon the society and the land, The Compleat Angler has for nearly four hundred years captured and held the attention of a far wider readership than just fishermen. Why and how this unexpected situation has come to be is the subject of the aforementioned Prof. Marjorie Swann’s new book “Environment, Society, & The Compleat Angler.”
The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up
My lingering state of feeling perpetually sleep deprived made me take particular notice of a recent Columbia University Press “Off the Page” podcast episode in which Quinn Eastman discussed his new book “The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up; Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness” with Melek Firat Altay.
Science Communication in a Crisis
Into the ongoing scientific communication quandary of our present age, Dr. Christopher Reddy introduces a collection of analyses and recommendations for those in such positions when faced with presenting important scientific information to audiences both large and small during times of profound uncertainty. “Science Communication in a Crisis; An Insider’s Guide” takes readers behind the scenes for close-up examinations and assessments of a number of recent crises that required elements of one or more scientific fields to be entered into the discussion thereof in order for it to be properly understood and meaningful actions to be undertaken.
Biographies
Life Science Books
Uncomfortable Questions
At the Society for the Protection of Birds’ sixth annual general meeting in 1896, Miss Julia Andrews, a fifty-eight year old spinster and local secretary for the Society’s branch in Teddington, rose to ask a very uncomfortable question to all the good and the great – as well as the more middling sort such as […]
In the Sign of Water
As Glenn Shorrock both wrote and sang in Little River Band’s 1979 song Cool Change, Well I was born in the sign of water And it’s there that I feel my best The albatross and the whales they are my brothers It’s a song I’ve long felt described me remarkably well. I was born in a […]