Ferris Jabr

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Author of BECOMING EARTH: HOW OUR PLANET CAME TO LIFE โœต Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine โœต ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ โœต surname rhymes with neighbor
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New review of Becoming Earth in 3 Quarks Daily:

"...a real feast for readers of books about life on Earth and for those who appreciate literary work: Jabr is not only knowledgeable, but a master of lyrical prose also." ๐Ÿ™๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ“š

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/09/ferris-jabrs-becoming-earth.html

Ferris Jabr's 'Becoming Earth' - 3 Quarks Daily

by Adele A.Wilby

3 Quarks Daily

New book event! On the evening of Oct 10th Iโ€™ll be at the amazing California Academy of Sciences to give a presentation about my debut book Becoming Earth, followed by a conversation w/ Exec Director and paleontologist Scott Sampson, + sales/signing

Tickets & More: https://www.calacademy.org/nightlife/nightlife-how-earth-came-alive

NightLife: How Earth Came Alive!

Explore the Academy at night alongside nearly 60,000 live animals.

California Academy of Sciences

New book event! On the evening of Oct 10th Iโ€™ll be at the amazing California Academy of Sciences to give a presentation about my debut book Becoming Earth, followed by a conversation w/ Exec Director and paleontologist Scott Sampson, + sales/signing

Tickets & More: https://www.calacademy.org/nightlife/nightlife-how-earth-came-alive

NightLife: How Earth Came Alive!

Explore the Academy at night alongside nearly 60,000 live animals.

California Academy of Sciences

Check it out: I'm on C-SPAN right now!

If you'd like to see one of my book talks, but haven't been able to make any of the events, you can watch a recording of my Secret Science Club talk on C-SPAN Book TV here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?538020-1/becoming-earth-planet-life

Next week, on Sep 25th, I'll be giving my first TED talk, based on my debut book Becoming Earth, as part of TEDxNewEngland, a new science-focused TEDx event hosted in the gorgeous Groton Hill Music Center.

Tickets & More Info: https://tedxnewengland.com/

TEDxNewEngland

Bridging the gaps

"Infectiously poetic prose" ๐Ÿ’š

Thank you @sciencemagazine & @nerdychristie !

Woke up to this stellar review of Becoming Earth in The Guardian, by doctor and author Gavin Francis

"The best books manage to entertain, educate, astonish..galvanise..w/ anecdote and well-turned, elegant metaphor..Jabr achieves all of these aims and more"๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ™

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/25/becoming-earth-how-our-planet-came-to-life-by-ferris-jabr-review-living-breathing-miracle-of-the-world-around-us

Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review โ€“ our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle

The US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living organism

The Guardian

I was delighted to have the chance to review @ferrisjabr โ€™s book #BecomingEarth for @newscientist The book is an important read for anyone interested in the #ClimateEmergency and #biodiversity, as well as being very interesting for any #artists and #philosophers out there dealing with topics of the #moreThanHuman

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26335051-600-a-dramatic-twist-to-the-gaia-hypothesis/

A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis

James Lovelock's hypothesis that our planet is a living entity is well known. Ferris Jabr's new book Becoming Earth takes it a step further

New Scientist
In The Guardian today, an excerpt from the plankton chapter of my book, featuring the exquisite forms, formidable power, and fundamental indispensability of the oceanโ€™s tiniest and most abundant creatures https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/aug/20/strange-and-wondrous-creatures-plankton-and-the-origins-of-life-on-earth
Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth

The long read: Without plankton, the modern ocean ecosystem โ€“ the very idea of the ocean as we understand it โ€“ would collapse. Earth would have no complex life of any kind

The Guardian
For the NYT Opinion section, I wrote an essay about turning a derelict lawn into a thriving wildlife garden and learning to see soil not just as a medium for life, but as a living entity in its own right. It became one of the most emailed and most popular articles on Facebook overnight! Gift link ๐ŸŽ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/opinion/soil-earth-life.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU4.Rgqu.xk1PR7DScbnN&smid=url-share
Opinion | Soil Is Home to a Vibrant World

The dirt beneath our feet is a bigger, bolder world than you think.

The New York Times