What We Are Reading Today: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery

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Updated 13 August 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery’s “Of Time and Turtles” tells of  her curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants, turtles‚  and through their stories of hope and rescue.

Elegantly blending science, memoir, philosophy, and drawing on cultures from across the globe, this compassionate portrait of injured turtles and their determined rescuers invites us all to slow down and slip into turtle time.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Mathematical Mechanic’ by Mark Levi

Updated 14 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Mathematical Mechanic’ by Mark Levi

Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics—imagine where we’d be today if Einstein and Newton didn’t have the math to back up their ideas.

But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics?

Mark Levi shows how in this delightful book, treating readers to a host of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers that will amuse and inspire their inner physicist.