Space on Earth: Panel & Performance w/Cara Giaimo, Brandon Keim, Laura Popp

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A panel celebrating new books by environmental writers Cara Giaimo, Brandon Keim, and Laura Poppick - with a set from art-rock band sidebody

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Join us on Earth Day for a special panel celebrating new books by environmental writers Cara Giaimo and Brandon Keim, moderated by science journalist Laura Poppick and spun into a party by Boston-based art-pop-rock band sidebody!Cara Giaimo lives in Somerville, MA, with her wife, Lilia, two cats, many plants, and uncountable neighborhood rats. A former staff writer at Atlas Obscura, Cara now covers our fellow species for the New York Times, Nautilus, and elsewhere. She plays guitar in sidebody.Part field guide, part travelogue, part cabinet of curiosities, Cara Giaimo and Joshua Foer's <a href="https://wildlife.atlasobscura.com/" title="https://wildlife.atlasobscura.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Atlas Obscura: Wild Life</a> is the definitive traveler’s guide to the world’s most fascinating, unusual, and least-understood flora and fauna.<a href="https://brandonkeim.net/" title="https://brandonkeim.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brandon Keim</a> is a science journalist specializing in nature and animals. His latest book, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081" title="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World</a> (W.W. Norton), is about animal personhood and our relationships to wild animals and to nature. His work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, and Nautilus.<a href="https://laurapoppick.com/" title="https://laurapoppick.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Laura Poppick</a> is a Portland-based science and environmental journalist whose stories have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, and elsewhere. Her debut book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time (W.W. Norton, July 2025), is coming out July 2025.At the start of the pandemic, three high school friends, Hava, Martha, and Lena, found themselves together again in their moms’ garages in suburbia. They picked up instruments they didn’t know how to play, and shared moments became songs. Soon after, Hava stumbled upon a fourth friend in a basement in Somerville — Cara, playing the vibraphone — and <a href="https://sidebody.org/" title="https://sidebody.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">sidebody</a> was born.

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