http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/15/the-shock-of-the-new/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/15/the-shock-of-the-new/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:06:15 +0000 CERC Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=21115 During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a host of naturalist-explorers traveled around the globe in a quest to identify new species. We interview science writer Richard Conniff, who evokes this grand age of discovery in The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth, just released in paperback.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/15/the-shock-of-the-new/feed/ 0