Science

Roxie Laybourne is probably a name that you do not know. Thanks to the wonderful and deeply researched biography The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne by Chris Sweeney, I hope that many more people will meet this remarkable 20th century pioneer of science. This book was published in 2025, and it is the newest book I have written about since launching this blog. Roxie, as everyone called her, almost singlehandedly invented the fi