by Greg Mayer It’s long been known that house cats, which are introduced to most of the places they occur (the wild members of the species are found in Europe, North Africa, and western Asia), can wreak havoc on native wildlife, perhaps the most infamous case being that of the Stephens Island Wren (Xenicus lyalli). […]
by Greg Mayer My friend and colleague Frank Egerton, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, is the author of a new book, Roots of Ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel, published last month by the University of California Press. With two sections on Darwin, and two others featuring Alfred Russel Wallace, the book will […]
by Matthew Cobb Over at The Guardian, Leo Hickman reminds us that 50 years ago today, Rachel Carson’s seminal book “Silent Spring” was published, with an amazing first print run of 150,000 copies. Carson’s dramatic ecological warning of the effects of insecticides on bird populations played an important part in bringing the problems of population, […]
I’ve occasionally taken issue on this site with James Wood’s seeming friendliness to religion despite his own nonbelief, but have also praised him for his terrific literary criticism at The New Yorker (he’s their chief literary critic and a professor at Harvard). Wood gets more kudos this week for a nice short piece at The […]
