22+ hour, 45+ min ago  (37+ words) Back to The Bird Guide: North America Ian Owens, Executive Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Check out our Digital Deals for $2. 99/2. 99 ebooks & audiobooks. Looking for other site content? Try our Site Search....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (668+ words) Princeton University Press This idea for this book began with a simple question: Why do so many modern biologists have a picture of Charles Darwin hanging in their laboratories? More questions followed. How and why have the Gal'pagos Islands become…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (428+ words) Unsplash / Jannet Serhan By Nancy Pick July 01, 2026 If you're truly devoted to observing plant patterns in nature, you learn that hunger can wait. A few weeks later, I arrive at the medieval hamlet, one that St'phane's architect father helped to…...

2+ day, 52+ min ago  (363+ words) Your family has lived and worked in Niagara Falls for four generations, and you grew up there. How did you first become aware that something was wrong? Christen E. Civiletto: I had to move 900 miles away from Niagara Falls to have…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (121+ words) By Eleanor Johnson June 30, 2026 It resonates with how I felt reading CNN's coverage of the rape academy in April. 62 million visits in one month'to a site that trained men to sedate and sexually assault their girlfriends or wives: the monsters…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (277+ words) By Jeffrey W. Howard June 25, 2026 Just last year, the Judiciary Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives convened a hearing on "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation." Central to the discussions was the suggestion that new European regulations on social media…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (654+ words) By Danielle D'Orlando June 18, 2026 June is Audiobook Month, a tradition that began decades ago to spotlight an emerging format. Nearly 30 years later, it's something much bigger: a celebration of how audiobooks have transformed the way we experience ideas, stories, and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (278+ words) James Joyce at age six (1888). Source: Wikimedia Commons. The first time my mother had Sunday lunch with her future in-laws in Roscommon, a small town in rural Ireland, she was astonished when the conversation turned to politics and my father…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (362+ words) Reimagining environmentalism as an act of doing and a way of being in the world and climate action as a shared goal, not an individual burden, Natural Connection draws on the legacies and ongoing resistance of marginalised communities around the…...

1+ mon, 23+ hour ago  (330+ words) Unsplash / Xavi Cabrera By Allison Daminger and Nina Bandelj June 01, 2026 My favorite conference ritual is wandering the exhibition hall perusing new releases displayed at publishers" booths. I get to temporarily slip into a fantasy world where I actually have time…...