斯坦福新生必读：2022 “三本书” 计划
“三本书”计划是斯坦福大学针对本科新生的标志性共同阅读计划。自2004年起，每年负责该计划的教授主持人都会选择一个整体主题，并由教授、员工和学生共同组成的委员会在几个月内为即将到来的新生选择合适的书籍/媒体，以便他们在暑假期间进行阅读和讨论。在新生迎新活动和秋季学期期间，该计划还会组织新生们与作者及嘉宾进行讨论，听取他们的观点。
2022年，我们的教授主持人是研究全球环境变化的生物学教授Elizabeth Hadly。她为今年入学的新生们选择了以下三本关于生物多样性议题的书籍和纪录片。
Animal, Directed by Cyril Dion
Year: 2021 | Duration: 105 minutes | Type: Documentary Film
The place of mankind among the living is the main topic. At the instigation of Cyril Dion, who already gave us his vision with TOMORROW, and the primatologist Jane Goodall, two teenagers will embark in an extraordinary quest: to find another way of living alongside other species, more as roommates than predators. To do so, they will travel and meet with scientists and activists all over the globe.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong
Year: 2022 | Duration: 464 pages | Type: Book
Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on “a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception” (The New York Times), allowing us to experience the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that other animals perceive.
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, by Lulu Miller
Year: 2021 | Duration: 256 pages | Type: Book
David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent more than a thousand discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered. Many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world.
When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool—a cautionary tale in hubris, or denial. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to wonder about him. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on when all seemed lost. What she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world beneath her feet. Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a wondrous fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail.
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