Hold on to your gardening hats, my friends, because come late February, Princeton University Press is going to be publishing Dr. Ross Bayton’s “The Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names.”
The Gardener’s Botanical
Princeton
Why Trust Science?
In these days when everything seems to be being questioned – sometimes honestly, other times with nearly palpable disingenuousness – the idea that someone would actually ask the question “why trust science?” is not particularly surprising. To those of us who have spent our lives studying one or more of the various disciplines of science, or who simply find ourselves naturally turning to science for answers to many of life’s challenges, both large and small, the question at first seems illogical. One might as well ask “why breath air?”
Birds in Winter
While it’s not yet winter here in the northern hemisphere, Mother Nature is certainly beginning to offer a range of reminders that it is indeed coming. What leaves remain on the trees are turning from vivid reds and oranges to more subdued yellows and browns just prior to joining their fellows on the forest floor. Insects are becomming scarce. And the local bird populations are rearranging their respective species memberships.
Dinosaur Facts and Figures
As I opened the large, flat package from Princeton University Press and drew out the book it contained, for a few fleeting but very intense moments I was eight-years-old once again, sitting on the floor in my family’s living room, surrounded by a herd of small, green and brown plastic dinosaurs.