Reads tagged with “science”
Citizen Science, the Cosmos, and the Meaning of Life: How the Comet That Might One Day Destroy Us Gives Us the Most Transcendent Celestial Spectacle
Encounters with the beautiful and the sublime in the science of “the single most dangerous object known to humanity.”
Between Science and Magic: How Hummingbirds Hover at the Edge of the Possible
How a tiny creature faster than the Space Shuttle balances the impossible equation of extreme fragility and superhuman strength.
Love and Symmetry: Poet A. Van Jordan Imagines the Undelivered Feynman Lecture About the Mystery Lying Between Scientific Truth and Human Meaning
“Mysteries inside mysteries in our own bodies of which we can’t make sense, another world waiting for a religion or calculus to explain.”
Kiss of the Sun: Poetry, Love, and Our Search for Meaning at the End of Time
A spare guide to making joyous peace with “the end of time, which is also the end of poetry (and wheat and evil and insects and love).”
Maria Mitchell’s Telescope and the Kickstarting of Popular Astronomy: The Heartening Story of the World’s First Crowdfunding Campaign for Science
“Patient thought, patient labor, and firmness of purpose are almost omnipotent.”
The Vast Wonder of the World: Ernest Everett Just’s Trailblazing Life and Life-Illuminating Science, Illustrated
How a visionary turned the art of noticing into a leap of science.
The Woman Who Saved the Hawks: Redeeming an Overlooked Pioneer of Conservation
The story of the countercultural courage and persistence that shaped the modern ecological conscience.
The Spirituality of Science and the Wonder of the Wilderness: Ornithologist and Wildlife Ecologist J. Drew Lanham on Nature as Worship
“As I wander into the predawn dark of an autumn wood, I feel the presence of things beyond flesh, bone, and blood. My being expands to fit the limitlessness of the wild world.”
Rare Butterflies and Unsung Pollinators: Gorgeous 18th-Century Drawings by the First Artist and Naturalist to Depict the Wing-borne Beauty of the New World
The world’s first pictorial glimpse of the strange and wondrous creatures that give our planet its scent and color.
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