What We Are Reading Today: The Sounds of Life by Karen Bakker

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Updated 17 October 2022
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What We Are Reading Today: The Sounds of Life by Karen Bakker

The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life.

At once meditative and scientific, The Sounds of Life shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound, interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Updated 27 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Spanning almost all of Nevada and Utah and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming, the sparsely populated regions of the Great Basin and the Basin and Range Province have stories to tell—stories intimate and vast, familial, historical, and geological.

In “Silence So Deep It Rings,” renowned landscape photographer Laura McPhee challenges the tradition of 19th-century survey photography, capturing the sheer beauty and depth of the West while conveying what has since occurred on the surface of the land.