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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Karen Magnuson Beil, local author on names, science, and Carl Linnaeus
Description: Karen Magnuson Beil has always been fascinated by names. Her latest book, “What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist’s Quest to Name Every Living Thing,” is an insightful look at the life of the 18th-Century Swede who developed the modern system of naming organisms. Carl Linnaeus — mocked by one of his critics as “a second Adam” — lived at a time when Europeans’ view of the world and their place in it was rapidly expanding. Linnaeus, a traveler and explorer in his youth, later sent his students to the New World to gather as many new plants and animals as they could find. His...