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
Animals navigate better than they should be able to and we still can’t fully explain it. Gould and Carol Grant Gould go through the evidence: Bees using polarized light and dancing directions to a hive, monarchs three generations removed finding…
Lars Chittka
Chittka has spent his career designing experiments for bees, and the results keep being unreasonable. 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,…
