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5 days ago · Rachel Carson (born May 27, 1907, Springdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died April 14, 1964, Silver Spring, Maryland) was an American biologist well known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea. Carson early developed a deep interest in the natural world.
4 days ago · 2. I borrow “more-than-human” from Abram (Citation 1996/1997) to refer to aspects of the environment including but not limited to animals, clouds, terrain, the ocean, plants, and wind.
2 days ago · Concern about invisible radiation served as a foundation for new ways of thinking about chemical risks for activists like Rachel Carson and Barry Commoner as well as many scientists, government officials, and the broader public.
1 day ago · Let the Last Thing Be Song. By Maria Popova. A person is a note in the mouth of probability hungry for song, reverberating with echoes of the impossible. To exist at all is as close as this universe of austere laws and inert matter gets to a miracle. At its most miraculous, life has a musical quality, harmonious and symphonic with meaning.
4 days ago · Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us, was a brilliant scientist and beautiful writer. This book, while extensively documented, gives more than one needs or wants to know of Rachel's every move.
4 days ago · on July 2, 2024, 4:22 p.m. Illustration by. Matilda Luk, Office of Communications. Six Princeton professors talk about beloved books on their shelves and share what’s on their summer reading lists — from scholarly nonfiction to crime fiction, with history, poetry, rom-com, artificial intelligence, magic, democracy, philosophy and more in ...
1 day ago · Mel Scott, future resident of Rachel Carson EcoVillage – May 19, 2022. Following Rachel’s Footsteps: The Big Sippewissett Marsh. While she was still studying at John Hopkins, Rachel Carson spent a summer of study at The Marine Biological Institute in Woods Hole Massachusetts.
