Primati. Le amicizie avventurose di Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey e Biruté Galdikas

So many mixed feelings about this book. I'll start with the good: Yay! Women scientists! At times funny and fascinating. I learned things. I had no idea that Louis Leakey helped secure the funding for Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall and got them their starts in field research. I had never heard of Gald Leggi tutto

This is similar to Charlie's Angels if they were scientists. Louis, a scientist enlists the help of 3 brilliant women to study great primates. They go out and become part of the primate pack and bring back lots of data. The 3 women weave in and out together from time to time. The story is mostly tol Leggi tutto

When my daughter was two, we watched a lot of David Attenborough documentaries. Planet Earth especially. She named the polar bear trio in the first episode after her, her mother, and her infant brother—I, the papa bear, was at the office. One of our favourites though was an episode of The Life of Ma Leggi tutto

After LOVING Feynman my teens (boys aged 18/15) and I were really excited to find this book. But we all were frustrated and confused by it. The kids (who have little to no knowledge of these women) found the narrator switch confusing and were left with lots of questions that were never answered(what Leggi tutto