Since the publication of his first book Mountains of the Mind in 2003, Robert Macfarlane has gone on to establish himself as a leading writer on the culture and language of the natural world.Mountains of the Mind was a well-deserved success when it was first published and resulted in its author receiving the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. I am glad to report that Granta has re-published the book in a 20th anniversary edition not least because my original copy eventually fell apart in some mountain hut after too long spent getting battered in a pocket of my rucksack. Re-reading the book has amply renewed the pleasures it provided first time around. Mountains of the Mind is not just a book for mountaineers. It is for anyone who has an interest in mountains, even if just from the viewpoint of an armchair or a roadside halt. It is above all a history of European humankind's changing relationship with mountain
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DESTIN, Fla. — The history of immunology includes snake bites and cowpox, and is built on the work of scientists dating back more than 2,000 years, according to a presenter at the 2023 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-East.
“The history of immunology is a family history,” Leonard Calabrese, DO, RJ Fasenmyer chair of Clinical Immunology at the Cleveland Clinic, and chief medical
The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler wrote what might be the first science fiction novel,
Somnium, which was published in 1634 (a few years after his death). As a serious scientist, he described the Moon and the sort of creatures that might live on it as accurately as the knowledge of the time allowed. The Moon was an incredibly alien world, he told his readers. Nights were 15 Earth days long “and dreadful with uninterrupted shadow”. The cold at night was more intense than anything experienced on Earth, while the heat of day was terrific. Animals that lived on the Moon adapted to these harsh conditions. Some went into hibernation, while others evolved hard shells and other protection.