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‘Walden Woods’ video game based on philosopher Thoreau’s life

Its lack of thrills, spills and multiple deaths means it is unlikely to appeal to fans of Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty, but a video game based on the years Henry David Thoreau spent living alone in a Massachusetts cabin is in development, following a US government grant.…

Scientists use Thoreau’s journal notes to track climate change

By Alison Flood – Researchers use Walden author’s tables of flowering dates in 1840s Massachusetts to show temperature has risen 2.4C Fittingly for a man seen as the first environmentalist, Henry David Thoreau, who described his isolated life in 1840s Massachusetts in the classic of American literature Walden, is now…