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 !

@louisffourie @kat @newscientist Thank you so much!

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