The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They CommunicateBy Peter Wohlleben
Some hikers enjoy traveling through forests because trees don’t talk — but it turns out they do. Wohlleben, a forester by profession, blends years of personal experience with new research into how the organisms exchange information, react to threats and even raise their young. While the science is interesting, it’s Wohlleben’s gentle storytelling that makes the read such a pleasure.
Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses From Omens of Doom to Einstein and ExoplanetsBy Tyler Nordgren
When the moon clips our view of the sun or our own shadow blots out our satellite, we experience it with the benefit of millennia of knowledge. We know years in advance when an eclipse will happen, where on the planet it will be visible and, perhaps most importantly, that the world will not end because of it. Our ...
