What We Are Reading Today: ‘Wild Orcas’

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Wild Orcas’
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Updated 10 July 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Wild Orcas’

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Wild Orcas’

Author:  Hanne Strager & Catherine Denardo

Of the world’s iconic predatory species, orcas are among the most fearsome. Their awesome physical power combined with their cooperative hunting skills and ability to problem-solve make them uniquely efficient killers. Yet orcas also celebrate births, grieve losses, and maintain lifelong family bonds. This stunningly illustrated book draws on five decades of field research and cutting-edge science to provide an incomparable look at the biology, natural history, culture, and conservation of these awe-inspiring marine animals. 

 


What We Are Reading Today: On Pedantry by Arnoud S. Q. Visser

What We Are Reading Today: On Pedantry by Arnoud S. Q. Visser
Updated 08 November 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: On Pedantry by Arnoud S. Q. Visser

What We Are Reading Today: On Pedantry by Arnoud S. Q. Visser

Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths.

“On Pedantry” offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning has been a vice in Western culture since the days of Socrates.

Taking readers from the academies of ancient Greece to today’s culture wars, Arnoud Visser explains why pretentious and punctilious learning has always annoyed us. 

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