[caption id="attachment_1371" align="alignright" width="300"] Eugenia Bone[/caption] "I eat food off the floor. No problem. The best thing for you is a carrot with the dirt still on it." Eugenia Bone became fascinated with microbes—those life forms that are too small to see without a microscope. Specifically, she...
Darwin’s Color Dictionary Used by Charles Darwin to describe colors in the field, "Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours” is one of the first color charts ever created. “The naturalist Charles Darwin, he actually used to carry a copy with him, when he was on his travels, and...
[caption id="attachment_1361" align="alignleft" width="300"] Daphne Sheldrick[/caption] Dame Daphne Sheldrick, who founded the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, more than 40 years ago, (1977) died peacefully at her home at the age of 83. Sheldrick and her family have helped save hundreds of elephants and other...
Heather McElhatton: Kevin Kling is an award-winning playwright and storyteller, residing in Minneapolis Minnesota. He was born with a congenital birth defect, his left arm is deformed, it has no wrist or thumb. His right arm was normal, but was completely torn off his body on...
TRANSCRIPT: Heather McElhatton: I'm Heather McElhatton and this is A Beautiful World. This week we talk to Marcia Bartusiak (Bar-too-shack), a professor of the practice in the graduate program of science writing at MIT about her new book 'Dispatches from Planet Three, 32 brief tales on...
Viral Dalal (VEE-rull DAH-loll): I heard this sound in the background which sounded like thunder, loud thunder and that woke me up. I was sleeping at that poiunt in time I woke up to thunder - furniture moving and became airborne. and I knew it...
Heather McElhatton: Today, we meet a cancer survivor who writes about resilience. His name is Mark Nepo, he's 67 years old. He's a poet, philosopher, teacher and cancer survivor. He lives in southwest Michigan and he's just published his twentieth book, titled: "More together Than...
[embed]https://animoto.com/play/PQqSHYQ0XcL1sCgsjWgrZw#[/embed] Why is art magical? How can it make us happy? How Art Can Make You Happy offers the keys to unlocking a rich and rewarding source of joy in life. This easy, breezy handbook by Bridget Watson Payne is full of insight that will help...
[embed]https://youtu.be/UI81Gv5l7Qs[/embed] For many of Earth’s creatures, time is running out. Half of the world’s plant and animal species will soon be threatened with extinction. The goal of Joel Sartore's "Photo Ark" is to document biodiversity, show what’s at stake and to get people to care while...
Barber gives free haircuts to kids who read out loud for him...