Tag Archive | Frans de Waal

The Thing With Feathers (a book review)


a murmuration of starlings Hello readers, Who among us has never envied a bird in flight? Our mysterious neighbors, many of them so well adapted to urban life, are a subject of endless fascination. Noah Strycker’s book, “The Thing With Feathers: the surprising lives of birds and what they reveal about being human”, is a […]

Our Inner Ape


Hello readers, Sorry to have been away for a little bit.  I’ve missed you, but I’ve been a little busy working on my other blogs.  Please do check out my little book in installments (Skirting Disaster: Anomie and Noémie), the first of which I have published on skirtingdisaster.wordpress.com.  The next installments will be posted in […]