If I’m honest, when I hear the word “squid,” I don’t think of their remarkable predatory skills.
I don’t think of their millennia-old significance in mythologies from around the world.
I think of deep fried calamari and chips.
If I’m honest, when I hear the word “squid,” I don’t think of their remarkable predatory skills.
I don’t think of their millennia-old significance in mythologies from around the world.
I think of deep fried calamari and chips.
While many may likely most readily recognize Rachel Carson as the author of “Silent Spring,” the 1962 environmental science book that successfully reached a wide reading audience and opened the eyes of millions to the risks of indiscriminate overuse of pesticides, it was as a marine biologist that she began her writing career and became a popularly read author.
A very problematic biography of Charles Darwin I received many years ago for review has long left me nervous about taking up any biography of him published since; however Dr. J. David Archibald’s new “Critical Lives: Charles Darwin” is well supported by the high integrity and scholastic history of its author, its publishers, and those who have already made early assessments of the book.
Broken heart, in a heartbeat, bottom of one’s heart, half hearted, change of heart, heart is in the right place, heart of stone, heart of gold, heavy heart, lose one’s heart, young at heart… It would be difficult to think of another part of any anatomy that figures so largely as the heart.