In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Alison F. Richard is interviewed on her recent book, Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present.

Full text of the second edition of American Politics and the Environment.

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Nina Wormbs.

We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.