Two podcasts have been added to The Well-read Naturalist’s Recommended Podcast list.
Two podcasts have been added to The Well-read Naturalist’s Recommended Podcast list.
There aren’t many days that a new episode of Joanne Rideout’s The Ship Report podcast is published that I don’t include listening to it in the activities that begin my day. Not only does it remind me of the town in which I was raised, it often contains interesting information about the natural history of the lower Columbia River.
When The Marine Biological Laboratory set out to publish, through The University of Chicago Press, a series of books that would make available to the wider reading public examples of the types of research undertaken at the institution, as well as portraits of how such research is undertaken there, giving the series the title Convening Science was clearly the most logical choice.
Like the other volumes in Princeton’s The Lives of the Natural World series, “The Lives of Sharks” presents its subjects in a habitat arranged structure that features representative species presented in lively and accessible text that explains shark biology, behavior, and ecology, all of which material is extensively supported by vivid, captivating photos and well-drawn, informative illustrations.