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STAR AND THE MAESTRO On Sale Now!
Thor's latest children's book, STAR AND THE MAESTRO, is now available! Published by HarperCollins/Greenwillow and illustrated by the wonderful Matt Schu, it tells the true story of the starling Mozart bought from a shop in Vienna after he heard it singing one of his compositions! On sale now at your local independent bookstore or through any online retailer.
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“In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, among others, where tradition held that a person's soul appeared in bee form when it left the body, briefly visible (and audible) in its journey to the hereafter...Nobody knows the exact sequence of events that led to the beginning of bees, but everyone can agree on at least one thing: we know what it sounded like.”
― Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
― Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
“Given time, evolution is much more likely to provide us with a multitude of solutions than it is to give us one ideal form.”
― The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
― The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
“As a simple exercise, the instructor showed us how to splice our own DNA into that of a bacterial cell. As the bacterial colony then divided and grew, our DNA would be copied ad infinitum, a basic form of cloning. Though of course we only used a tiny fragment of DNA and the results were crude, I distinctly remember thinking, “I shouldn’t be able to clone myself in a one-credit class.”
― The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
― The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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