News Showing news stories tagged with "book spotlight" Why do we love cats and hate rats? 3/6/2023 Why do we dote on parakeets but not pigeons? Why do we let cats curl up on our laps but catch rats in traps? Science writer Bethany Brookshire, author of the new book Pests: How Humans Create Animal… The Libraries picks their “Best Books” for 2020 12/10/2020 Happy Jólabókaflóð from the Libraries! That’s the Icelandic holiday tradition of the “Yule Book Flood,” when people give each other a bounty of new books. NC State librarians offer their own flood of… What’s our climate’s future? 9/26/2019 The future is being transformed by climate change faster and more dramatically than we realize. Politics, technology, cities, business—even our sense of history, human rights, and justice—will all be… Beer from wasps! Chocolatey microbes! Body yogurt! 11/5/2018 Mmmm, microbes! Bet you never thought you’d say that. But you will at “Never Home Alone: A Gala of Stories, Foods, and Insights from the Study of the Life in Homes,” a special event to celebrate Dr…