Fifty years ago today, the New Yorker began a three issue series entitled "Silent Spring" written by Rachel Carson. I don't think I need to introduce Rachel Carson or "Silent Spring" to anyone who reads this blog, but there's a very nice historical perspective on the history of "Silent Spring" at The Pop History Dig
. If you're at all interested in Rachel Carson, you owe it to yourself to click through and read it. darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/.../
