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The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.Scientists believe that radiation from an exploding black hole could be detected on Earth in the next decade.And pumas are re-establishing themselves in Argentina’s Patagonia region. And they’ve found a new source of food.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.Scientists believe that radiation from an exploding black hole could be detected on Earth in the next decade.And pumas are re-establishing themselves in Argentina’s Patagonia region. And they’ve found a new source of food.

Oren Harman tells us about his latest book, "Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History. ," where Harman traces a path from Aristotle to Darwin to cutting-edge science today, to explore this miraculous yet violent process of transformation and metaphor for identity, reinvention, and survival.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.A common lizard in the American west plays a unique game of rock, paper, scissors.And your dog may be smarter than you think. A new study finds some dogs can learn by eavesdropping.

In "Unwanted: The Causes and Effects of America’s Horse Population Crisis," equestrian journalist and lifelong horsewoman Christina Keim delivers a compassionate, fact-based investigation into one of the most complex and divisive issues facing the equine world today.

Edward Kanze's new book is called “The Nature of the Place: On the Flora and Fauna of the Adirondacks,” a love letter to his home. The Adirondack Park, where he gathers materials from his columns and elsewhere has revised them and tries to give us all a look of the flora and fauna of his home.

Musician, music producer, artist, and self-proclaimed critter, Neko Case has written her memoir. “The Harder I Fight The More I Love You.” It was released in late January.

This Saturday, September 7, the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York will open a major new exhibition entitled “Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum.”

"Your Pets Secret Lives: The Truth Behind Your Pets' Wildest Behaviors" is a hilarious guide to their secret lives, complete with interviews with the scientists who research them. Eleanor Spicer Rice is an entomologist and the author of many nonfiction books, including "Your Hidden Life: Unseen Jungle" and "Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Spiders."

Leila Philip will celebrate the release of “Beaverland” in two events in our region this week - the first in an Oblong Books event at Morton Memorial Library in Rhinebeck, New York tonight, the second at Hudson Hall in Hudson, NY on Friday, December 9.