Otto Rank, writes his biographer E. James Lieberman, believed that “Meaning—given, found or created—enables one to love life ...

Refugia Marin is a group seeking volunteers to help restore native vegetation around our county. The project aims to boost ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms ...

Alumnus Jason Roberts (Cowell ’89, literature) won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for his biography Every Living Thing. “I’ve lately been drawn to write what I call human scale history, nonfiction narratives ...

Jason Roberts’s book about Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis Leclerc, “Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life,” was awarded the prize in biography.

Despite the masterful attention to detail indoors, everything’s designed to lure guests outside and immerse them in the pristine grounds. The focus on nature is a philosophy drawn from Swedish ...

It centres on the differing arguments of two men from the 18th century: Swedish doctor and biologist Carl Linnaeus, who espoused the "tidy" theory; and French naturalist Georges Louis de Buffon ...

In 2023, scientists discovered thousands of unknown life forms in the Pacific Ocean. The discovery highlighted an unsettling fact: 86 per cent of land species and 91 per cent of marine species ...

Carl Linnaeus, today a largely unknown figure, is one of the giants of natural science. He devised the formal two-part naming system we use to classify all life forms. With Quentin Cooper is ...

Linnaeus University was founded in 2010 in Växjö and Kalmar in Sweden, named after the renowned scientist Carl Linnaeus. It was established through the merger of Växjö University and Kalmar University ...