With the coming of spring in the northern hemisphere, not only are the flowers blooming, the book sales are as well.
It’s May and the Book Sales Are in Bloom
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Understanding Visuals in the Life Sciences
Begun in 2020 with Dr. Kostas Kampourakis’ “Understanding Evolution” (now in its second edition), the Understanding Life series numbers twenty-six volumes – or at least it will with the publication of Dr. Han Yu’s “Understanding Visuals in the Life Sciences” later this month.
Playing Possum
In 2018, when the Southern Resident Orca given the human name of Tahlequah by observers gave birth to a calf that soon died and that she subsequently carried on her head for seventeen days, endangering her own life in the process due to the difficulties the act caused in her eating enough to recover from the birth, journalists from around the world flooded the airwaves and Internet with stories of her mourning, her sorrow, her grief, how much she was like a human mother whose own child had died.
The Humanistic Background of Science
Philipp Frank’s “The Humanistic Background of Science” was left unfinished at the time of Frank’s death in 1966, however having now been edited by George A. Reisch and Adam Tamas Tuboly for SUNY University Press, it is now available to be read by any and all interested in the history of science.