There was a bad accident on my commute to work yesterday, which meant I got to hear the after-9-am segment on The Current (a rare treat). It featured Dan Riskin, the author of a new book about how brutal the natural world really is. We like to focus on the majestic deer bounding across serene landscapes, but it really is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short out there.

It’s not letting me embed the audio, but you can listen here.