This category contains all works pertaining to life sciences and physical sciences.
Once a very unusual type of battery, lithium cells in their many different forms have become more than just common, they have become essential to technology-dependent societies in such ubiquitous devices as mobile phones and electric motor vehicles. And therein lies the problem.
Edited by Dr. Chris Manias, “Palaeontology in Public” features a collection case studies, each published as a chapter, by a remarkable assembly of noteworthy authors in the field. It’s as informative as it is lively and interesting, and if you’re interested in the subject, it’s a book about which you should know.
This coming October, The Library of America will publish a new boxed set of their Rachel Carson Collection. I doubt that most regular readers of “The Well-read Naturalist” need any introduction to Rachel Carson or her work, but but for those who might be just beginning their journey into the wonders of natural history, she was a marine biologist whose trilogy of books about the sea have introduced the wonders of the ocean world and the challenges facing it to readers all around the world.
In describing the absurd, unique manner by which American law has long treated – and indeed, often continues to treat – non-procreative, non-heteronomative sexual behavior, I can do no better than to quote from Alfred Kinsey et al.’s 1949 work Concepts of Normality and Abnormality in Sexual Behavior: [The law] proscribes [sexual acts which do […]