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Brad Fox—Another Bone-Swapping Event

On March 9, 2020, Brad Fox flew from New York to Peru to spend 10 days with a traditional curandero, or healer, learning about plant medicines in a remote jungle four hours’ walk from the nearest dirt road. After WHO declared the COVID pandemic two days later, Peru shut down international and domestic travel. In Another Bone-Swapping Event, Fox shares experiences from his 14 months there.

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Ryan Goldberg—Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds

Contrary to common belief, cities offer superb birding ops, Ryan Goldberg reports in Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds. Goldberg takes readers around New York and around the year, to urban canyons, parks, rivers, & marshes, examining the impact of air quality, bright lights, window strikes, & more on 100s of bird species. Thankfully, few women today wear hats adorned with birds.

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Ainissa Ramirez—Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone

Growing up on a farm in Virginia in the 1930s, Jim West loved taking radios and other devices apart and putting them back together to figure out how they worked. In Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, Ainissa Ramirez introduces readers aged 5-9 to West’s role in developing the ubiquitous microphone. It’s the 1st book in her children’s series on Black inventors.

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David Stipp—Why Rats Laugh & Jellyfish Sleep and Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution

“Familiar things we tend to ignore in our daily haste are often more interesting than they seem,” David Stipp asserts. In Why Rats Laugh & Jellyfish Sleep and Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution, he ponders Darwinian puzzles such as why many species of bees have yellow & black bands, & why humans need to sleep. Why questions about living things, he explains, often point to adaptive purposes.

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Gather for games

The NASW Freelance Committee virtual meetup on Dec. 4 will be a gathering to play games together. All current NASW members are invited. This social event is a great chance to hang out with familiar faces and new colleagues — while pondering the answers to science questions in small breakout groups. No expertise is needed.

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