Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris has won the PEN / E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing. for her “The Butchering Art; Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine.”
The Butchering Art Wins PEN / E.O. Wilson Prize
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America
Long had we waited… left to making the best guesses we could given whatever references we could find. Never really having the opportunity simply to sit and study the astonishing varieties of species, to learn the geographic locations where they might be found, or to improve our field skills.
Then, in 2012, Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle gave us hope
Sy Montgomery on Mongabay Newscast
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even octopi down in the seas do it… And if you listen to the most recent episode of the Mongbay Newscast in which the first guest is Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness and many other interesting books […]
Managing the Wild
“Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and they are much better at it than we are.” So writes Charles M. Peters in his new book “Managing the Wild; Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests.”