Cultivating Curiosity Since 2010.
Introducing LWD’s Research Consultant and Contributing Writer Kennedy Augusto Beer “I believe that the library transcends a place of reading and learning, for me the library is a place of reflection and dreams.” Kennedy Augusto Beer I’m Kennedy Augusto Beer, and I’m from Guinea-Bissau. I have a degree in Public Administration from the University of…
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“Perpetually surrounded by partially finished books.” My life in six words. That’s me. A researcher by nature, I find solace in the idea of that word of research: to re-search.
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An 86 degree day in Northern Michigan, china markers, Virginia Woolf, and a cow named Mr. Tomkin. A list of words with seemingly nothing in common, that is, until you add children and compost and a plan to write a story. Reader, are you curious? Good. Now relax and enjoy a story all about what can happen…
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Us humans have led ourselves to believe that our culture sets us apart from the animal kingdom. But as Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes, writes in his The Atlantic article Chimpanzees Are Going Through a Tragic Loss, “many scientists have come to accept the existence of animal cultures”.
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