At dinner the other day, I was talking with a good friend about a variety of subjects from politics to science. I brought up the idea that science has a story-telling aspect about it and I wanted to show that by example in my book. Alaskan Eskimo pipes such as this one were [...]
In her comprehensive biography, The Invention of Nature (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), Andrea Wulf tells how Alexander Humboldt (1769 -1859) was the first to understand that the natural world “was interwoven as with ‘a thousand threads’.” Humboldt saw “unity in variety.” He was the first to consider different plants, animals and inanimate nature interdependent and [...]
