For me, there’s no more resonant image from a Florida childhood than this: You’re on a bright beach, sun blazing, clouds so big they must surely be the home of the gods. The roar of the waves ...
GIFT FROM THE SEA (128 pp.)—Anne Morrow Lindbergh—Pantheon ($2.75). Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author of charming books about flying to far-off places (North to the Orient, Listen! The Wind) now has ...
Cynthia Barnett investigates shells and the way people around the world have regarded them in her fascinating scientific and cultural history, "The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the ...
Author Armand Marie Leroi reminisces about the shells that sparked his love of science. Will this year’s Nobel Prizes go to GLP-1 research, optogenetics, or something else? Researchers picked their ...