Category: Nature
By Brian Shea, Journals public relations and advertising coordinator Thirty years ago, the journal diacritics published a special issue on nuclear criticism that focused on new ways of talking about the threat of nuclear war, which pervaded all aspects of society in the mid-1980s. Now, guest editor Karen Pinkus has put together a similarly-themed issue on one of…
By Brian Shea, Journals public relations and advertising coordinator Thirty years ago, the journal diacritics published a special issue on nuclear criticism that focused on new ways of talking about the threat of nuclear war, which pervaded all aspects of society in the mid-1980s. Now, guest editor Karen Pinkus has put together a similarly-themed issue on one of…
Guest post by Whit Gibbons How do you go from being a nature-loving kid in Alabama to the most respected biologist in America? Here’s one story of E. O. Wilson’s remarkable journey as we celebrate his 85th birthday on June 10, 2014. Without knowing it, I first crossed the wake of Edward Osborne Wilson in 1955…
Guest post by Whit Gibbons How do you go from being a nature-loving kid in Alabama to the most respected biologist in America? Here’s one story of E. O. Wilson’s remarkable journey as we celebrate his 85th birthday on June 10, 2014. Without knowing it, I first crossed the wake of Edward Osborne Wilson in 1955…