Let’s face it – the popular understanding of the cognitive abilities of reptiles isn’t particularly complimentary. And for that matter, even some areas of the scientific world have borrowed the name to represent aspects of biology that are considered primitive or base – the “reptilian brain,” for example. However…
I’m not quite certain what has brought widespread interest in fungi to the fore this past decade. Perhaps it has been the expansion of awareness of mycelial networks and their relationship to forests, or maybe it is related to expanding grass-roots campaigns to legalize psilocybin for medical use in the treatment of PTSD and other […]
If a friend were to ask you to recommend a modern book – just one – that would help him or her to understand your fascination with natural history, you’d likely be hard pressed to do it. I know I certainly would. After all, there are so many excellent works that have been published within this wide-ranging category over the past fifty years that picking just one would be quite a challenge indeed.
Of all the creatures with which humans have been associated – both physically as well as spiritually – from times that long predate written records, bears have been among the foremost. The source of both fear as well as of fascination; alternately hated and revered, bears have for millennia been the embodiment of our nightmares as well as of our greatest desires for power within as well as over our environment.