3 books
Michel Pastoureau
Green was hard to make and harder to keep. The dye wouldn’t hold — it faded, it shifted, it wouldn’t sit still on cloth — and medieval guilds kept the blue dyers and the yellow dyers separate by law, so…
James L. Gould; Carol Grant Gould
Animals navigate better than they should be able to and we still can’t fully explain it. The authors track through the evidence: Bees using polarized light and dancing directions to a hive, monarchs three generations removed finding one Mexican forest,…
Lars Chittka
Chittka has spent his career designing experiments for bees, with astounding results. Bees count. They recognize human faces. They learn to roll a ball into a goal for a sugar reward by watching another bee do it, then improve on…
