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The New York Times posted a great piece detailing an article published in the October issue of The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists’ Union, exploring the cycle of abuse in birds. The Auk is one of over 50 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines published by the Journals and Digital Publishing Division [more...]  We’ve received an update on the travels and adventures of the intrepid David and Janet Carle as they do the ground work behind their upcoming THE 38th PARALLEL: A WATER LINE AROUND THE WORLD, which is scheduled to be published in 2012. They’re still in Japan, talking to people about tsunami recovery and the restoration [more...] (Editor’s note: This post is written by Jonathan Losos, author of the title Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. The post originally appeared in the blog Anole Annals (try saying that 3 times fast). The journal Nature has just published his paper on the Anole genome. Also, Jonathan has written [more...] Jonathan Balcombe. Photo credit: Michelle Riley/The HSUS In the latest UC Press podcast, Jonathan Balcombe tells the incredible story of how fishes, like humans, love to engage in the time-honored ritual of the spa. Despite the perception of fishes as coldblooded, unfeeling, unthinking creatures, the story reveals them to be social animals who take pleasure [more...] Jonathan Losos, Harvard professor and author of Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles, now available in paperback, has announced the launch of a new blog focused on all things Anolis. Anole Annals aspires to be the clearinghouse for information, observations, and announcements of all matters involving lizards of the genus Anolis, [more...] Jonathan Balcombe. Photo credit: Michelle Riley/The HSUS Fashion and style website The Ethical Man has named UC Press author Jonathan Balcombe the first in their Ethical Men series, a new feature honoring men who embody the spirit of the site by “going the extra mile on animals’ behalf or simply being a day-in, day-out [more...] UC Press author Julian Cribb was recently interviewed on the Financial Sense Newshour about the arguments in his new book, The Coming Famine. Cribb questions whether we can sustain our food supply through mid-century, when governments haven’t been investing in science and technology for food production in a meaningful way. He believes it’s not too late [more...] © Mark Moffett, Adventures Among Ants In his stint as guest editor for LIFE.com, Dr. Mark Moffett takes us on a tour through the photo archives of LIFE Magazine in this online slide show. Moffett, a photojournalist, researcher at the Smithsonian Institute, and author of Adventures Among Ants, describes a series of entomological scenes shot [more...] If you’re in New York, spend an evening with the authors of Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex at the American Museum of Natural History on October 21st at 7pm. Mark Norell, chair of the Museum’s Division of Paleontology, and Research Associate Lowell Dingus will be signing books and [more...] Weaver ants gathering leaves for their nest. Photo © Mark W Moffett/Minden Pictures It’s a safe bet that Mark Moffett, aka “The Indiana Jones of Entomology”, has some good travel stories up his sleeve. Moffett, author of Adventures Among Ants, has been at the scene of driver ant raids in Nigeria, watched leafcutter ants grow fungus [more...] |
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