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...Carson, as some friends knew her, took part-time work writing science radio scripts for the old Bureau of Fisheries, a job that led, in 1936, to a full-time appointment as a junior aquatic biologist. To eke out her small income, she contributed feature articles to the Baltimore Sun, most of them related to marine zoology. Though her poetry was never to be published, a strong lyrical prose was already evolving, and one of her pieces for a government publication seemed to the editor so elegant and unusual that he urged her to submit it to the Atlantic Monthly...
...interest to the writer and her readers to consider a scientific movement generated by the prominent Harvard biologist E.O Wilson in his book Biophilia. The term is coined to describe the complex emotions that compel us to often unconsciously seek contact with living organisms--an urge that, if left unfulfilled, endangers our psychological well being...
...interest to the writer and her readers to consider a scientific movement generated by the prominent Harvard biologist E.O Wilson in his book Biophilia. The term is coined to describe the complex emotions that compel us to often unconciously seek contact with living organisms--an urge that, if left unfulfilled, endangers our psychological well being...
...defining event of DiMaggio's career occurred in 1941, when he got at least one base hit in 56 consecutive games--a feat of consistency no other player has come close to matching. Evolutionary biologist (and sports buff) Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that "DiMaggio's streak is the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports...
Brian D. Farrell, Loeb associate professor of the natural science, said "reading [Mayr's] book as an undergraduate convinced me to be an evolutionary biologist. He is the father of evolutionary biology...