Boria Sax’s “The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was A Man” may be his most eclectic book yes, an for a scholar as famous for his eclectic as Dr. Sax is, that is no small accomplishment.
The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was a Man
Boria Sax’s “The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was A Man” may be his most eclectic book yes, an for a scholar as famous for his eclectic as Dr. Sax is, that is no small accomplishment.
Dr. Marc Berman’s new book “Nature and the Mind” presents the reader with a new paradigm for understanding how regular exposure to the natural world yields benefits to both human psychological and physical health; a paradigm that includes explanations not only as to the “what” of the matter but perhaps even more importantly the “why.”
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.
Let’s be honest – even the most social media skeptical amongst us is vulnerable, should we find ourselves waiting in a particularly long queue, stuck in non-moving traffic, waiting for a coffee or a meal, etc. – to pulling out one of the ubiquitous little electronic time thieves that we carry about on our person […]