The book sales of summer continue. The most recent one to come to appear is the New York University Press Summer Sale 2025 offering 60% off their books’ cover prices.
New York University Press’ Summer Sale 2025
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Dance of the Dung Beetles
“An inordinate fondness for beetles.” So J.B.S. Haldane famously quipped when asked what he thought could be deduced about God through the study of natural history. He had a point. There are 380,000 (give or take) species presently known to science – with untold thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, still undiscovered and not yet described.
Happy 210th Birthday Mr. Darwin
As most naturalists do, I like to stop for at least a few moments on anniversaries of particular scientific significance in order to acknowledge and contemplate what or who that anniversary commemorates and where we would be had that thing not happened or that person not been born. Such a day is 12 February, the date on which Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was born.