Lulu Miller’s “Why Fish Don’t Exist; A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World,” has been selected by Blackwell’s as their pick for the non-fiction Book of the Month for July 2025.
Why Fish Don’t Exist is Blackwell’s Pick for July
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The Wildlife Society’s 2025 Publications Awards
The Wildlife Society has announced its list of winners for their Publications Awards. These awards recognize the outstanding achievements in both published books, as well as both papers by professionals working in the field as well as students preparing to work in wildlife management.
Noteworthy Podcast Episodes (Week Ending 27 June 2025)
Mongabay – Robert Macfarlane is interviewed about his recently published book Is a River Alive? from Penguin Books UK. (After “Robert Macfarlane” did anything more really need to be said to entice you to listen to it?) Absolute Units – Prof. Dolly Jørgensen is interviewed about her very boaring but absolutely not at all boring […]
Beginning to Look Up
As one who added the study of astronomy to my natural philosophy repertoire rather late in life, I found it a bit challenging to get the gist of just what I was looking at whenever I cast my eyes skyward (and if I’m honest, I very often still do). Not that there aren’t a number of worthy books offering guidance regarding “what is what” up there; the challenge was that I had long ago become accustomed to terrestrial observation – beginning, as one so often does, with the observation of birds and its use of field marks and other similar visual cues. However while the skills acquired in learning to identify birds have a high level of transferability to learning to identify, for example, insects, none of them really apply in any significant way in learning to identify astronomical objects.