Backyard Visitors
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Backyard Visitors

Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson “Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony,” writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s most beloved scientists, “their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg.” In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to…

Road Trip Reads: Audiobooks for Your Drive
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Road Trip Reads: Audiobooks for Your Drive

The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life by Noble SmithSubject: Self-HelpRun Time: 4:47 Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha TretheweySubject: MemoirRun Time: 5:10 Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman OhlerSubject: WWII HistoryRun Time: 7:20 Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions…

Biographies & Memoirs of the Famous & the Infamous
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Biographies & Memoirs of the Famous & the Infamous

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong It was the Golden Age of Radio and powerful men were making millions in advertising dollars reaching thousands of listeners every day. When television arrived, few radio moguls were interested in the upstart industry…

Anna Atkins and the cyanotype process (E. Krasnopoler)
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Anna Atkins and the cyanotype process (E. Krasnopoler)

“We are looking at a white-ish blue, organically-shaped form radiating from a central point, and surrounded by a rich, flat cyan-blue tone. Little here gives a clue as to what this is—Is it a drawing? A plant? A print?—but a small cursive label at the bottom offers our first clue, Dityota atomaria. This Latin name for a species of algae suggests a scientific origin—perhaps that this is a botanical specimen.” (E. Krasnopoler)