Paul Stamets is a mycologist with a little mad scientist thrown in. Author of the book Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, when his house was attacked by carpenter ants years ago, he sought an out-of-the-box solution from the natural world. He wasn’t content to simply poison ...

E. O. Wilson knows a lot about ants. A biologist and naturalist who teaches at Harvard, Wilson has a couple Pulitzers under his belt and has written a lot of books on a variety of topics, including sociobiology and “consilience”—the combining of different types of knowledge, like science and the ...