William Sargent

Cognoscenti contributor

William Sargent is a consultant for the NOVA science series and author of 27 books about science and the environment. His most recent book, "Crab Wars: A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Ecology, and Human Health," was released by Brandeis University Press in September 2021.

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Dr. E.O. Wilson, former Harvard biologist and Pulitzer Prize-winner, photographed in his office at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 11, 2006, in front of a photograph of weaver ants taken for the Harvard Museum of Natural History by his former student Mark Moffett. Wilson died last month. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

Here’s how we should commemorate E.O. Wilson

Writer William Sargent considers Wilson's radical idea to set aside half the Earth for nature.

Cognoscenti

Jan 3, 2022

In this Aug. 1, 2000 file photo, technician Tom Bentz prepares a group of horseshoe crabs for bleeding at a lab in Chincoteague Island, Va. (Steve Helber/AP)

This Animal Is Central To Our Fight Against COVID. Now It Needs Our Help

Every antibody test and every batch of vaccine has been tested with a substance from the blue blood of horseshoe crabs, writes William Sargent.

Cognoscenti

Sep 29, 2021