Blogs
Hello from NACCB 2014!
By Erin Johnson / On July 16th, 2014
Learning What Feels Green
By Rafe Sagarin / On October 28th, 2013
There’s a great interview of anthropologist David Howes in the 14 September 2103 NewScientist (subscription access) about the role of synesthesia in marketing products. Synestesia—the sense of mixing senses (experiencing color as a flavor, for example) is often portrayed as a special sense that all of us dabble in, but a select odd few (the Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov, for ex
Some Kudos from Scientists Using Island Press Books
By Jason Leppig / On October 25th, 2013
Giving and Taking: Images and Nature
By Rafe Sagarin / On August 6th, 2013
Once again I’m promoting science writer Michelle Nijhuis, this time for a little piece in The New Yorker on the history of the daguerreotype, an early type of photographic technique. What I like about the piece is it makes me imagine what it might have been like at that dawn of a new technology, to think about the possibilities of what could happen by merging observation, art, and technology. It’s hard to say this early technology wa
A Conversation on Art & Environment with Rafe Sagarin
By Admin / On May 10th, 2013
Observation and Ecology author Rafe Sagarin discusses art and the environment with poet Eric Magrane from the University of Arizona.
Eric Magrane: Rafe, you write and speak about observation, most pointedly in your bookObservation and Ecology, with Aníbal Pauchard. I’d like to discuss the way that observation interacts as a hinge between science—and particularly environmental science—as a way of seeing and understanding the world, and art as a way of seeing.