Two podcasts have been added to The Well-read Naturalist’s Recommended Podcast list.
Two Newly Recommended Podcasts
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
The Vital Importance of Public Broadcasting
To a small, un-athletic, severely near-sighted, brutally bullied little boy growing up in a rough working class Oregon town, PBS was a lifeline. After each day’s ration of physical and verbal abuse at school, I’d come home and spend some time in a world where people were kind and gentle to one another, where learning new things was encouraged, and where there was hope that the world might actually be a better place than what it had shown me it was.
It’s May and the Book Sales Are in Bloom
With the coming of spring in the northern hemisphere, not only are the flowers blooming, the book sales are as well.
A Delightfully Aesthetic Science
Titled in reference to, and honor of, Phillip Henry Gosse’s classic 1861 book The Romance of Natural History , Dr. Lynn Merrill’s The Romance of Victorian Natural History presents an examination of not only Mr. Gosse’s own writings but those of his Nineteenth Century fellow amateur natural history practitioners as well. Yet even if this […]