Karen Pryor, Guru of Positive Reinforcement, Is Dead at 92
Karen Pryor once taught a hermit crab to ring a bell by pulling a string with its claw. She taught a cat to play the piano (ham was involved) and,…
Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made a…