There’s a certain type of person you’ve probably encountered in grade school. Perhaps you were this person yourself. This was the person who didn’t just like to read — reading was part of their ...
The book falls into three parts, each connected to a different century and events related to what became known as Steller’s ...
Three hearts, eight arms, and a 400 million year rule of the oceans. Read Danna Staaf’s ode to octopuses (and squid) with SciFri this June. Monarchs of the Sea brings together a range of topics, ...
THE MAGIC BARREL (214 pp.)—Bernard Malamud—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.75). In taking the Old Man of the Sea upon his shoulders, Sindbad the Sailor thought he was merely performing a small favor. But ...
When the marine biologist Rachel Carson was a young girl, she discovered a fossilized shell while hiking around her family’s hillside property in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Those who knew her then ...
In California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline, Rosanna Xia, an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, writes: “When talking about climate change solutions, most actions ...
In the preface to his masterful account of human history as shaped by the oceans, Cambridge Professor David Abulafia reminds us that the seas around us “account for something like 70% of the world’s ...
One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...
Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore, by J.M.W. Turner. (Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) Rachel Carson was a passionate and poetic writer, but she was not a particularly subtle one. When ...
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