It’s Book Recommendation Time! Martha’s makes an enthusiastic case for The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World (Bookshop|Amazon). It’s historian Andrea Wulf’s biography of the polymath, adventurer...
Featherwood n.— «Angela would tear herself away from the TV and finish opening the can, declaring herself “a skin bitch, a Featherwood.”» —by William Finnegan Cold New World , 1998. (source: Double-Tongued...