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Apr 15, 2024
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Jeremy Bernstein 11–2007
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Jon Willis, "The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Andrew H. Jaffe, "The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Craig Hogan, "The Unlikely Primeval Sky" (American Scientist, November-December)
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal, "Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe" (Smithsonian Books, 2025)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Liam Graham, "Physics Fixes All the Facts" (Springer Nature, 2025)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Vlatko Vedral, "Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Jonas Enander, "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" (The Experiment Press, 2025)
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Mario Livio and Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Richard Mainwaring, "What the Ear Hears (And Doesn't): Inside the Extraordinary Everyday World of Frequency" (Sourcebooks, 2022)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Emilio Elizalde, "The True Story of Modern Cosmology: Origins, Main Actors and Breakthroughs" (Springer, 2021)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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David J. Helfand, "The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Robyn Arianrhod, "Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation" (U of Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Paul Sen, "Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe" (Scribner, 2021)
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Liam Graham, "Molecular Storms: The Physics of Stars, Cells and the Origin of Life" (Springer Nature, 2023)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
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May 02, 2025 |
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Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Grace Lindsay, "Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams" (Vintage, 1992)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Siobhan Angus, "Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Bernardo Kastrup, "Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's Only Plausible Metaphysics" (Iff Books, 2024)
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May 24, 2024 |
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Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Janna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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May 20, 2023 |
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Felix Flicker, "The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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May 02, 2023 |
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Seeing Truth in Physics
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in the Arts
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Measure for Measure Episode 8: Star Ladder
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Measure for Measure Episode 3: Mohs
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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David Lindsay, "Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words" (CSIRO Publishing, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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On Einstein's Discoveries
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Elise Vernon Pearlstine, "Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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On Edwin Hubble’s "The Realm of the Nebulae"
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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All About Dwarf Galaxies: A Conversation with Astronomer Charlotte Christensen
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Albert Folch, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The History, Science, and Engineering of Microfluidic Technology" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim, "Song of the Earth: Understanding Geology and Why It Matters" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Greg Brennecka, "Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong" (William Morrow, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Adam M. Romero, "Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture" (U California Press, 2021)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Jim Al-Khalili, "The Joy of Science" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Will Kinney, "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Hilary Glasman-Deal, "Science Research Writing For Native and Non-Native Speakers of English" (World Scientific Publishing Europe, 2020)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Intellectual Humility in Science: A Discussion with Glenn Sauer
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Raghuveer Parthasarathy, "So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Kenneth L. Caneva, "Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Fritjof Capra, "Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades" (High Road Books, 2021)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Emily Levesque, "The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Laurie Winkless, "Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Omar W. Nasim, "The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Melinda Baldwin, "Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Claudia de Rham, “The Pull of the Stars” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Dave Goulson, "Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse" (Harper, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Noémi Tousignant, "Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Scott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Jill Tartar, “SETI: Astronomy as a Contact Sport” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Paul Steinhardt, “Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Lee Smolin, “Examining Time” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Justin K. Stearns, "Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Seth M. Siegel, "Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Anne Bogart, "The Art of Resonance" (Methuen Drama, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Jonathan Rees, "The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Tony Leggett, “The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Joanna Haigh, “Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Chiara Marletto, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals" (Viking, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Freeman Dyson, “Pushing the Boundaries” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Alyssa Ney, "The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Howard Burton, "First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute" (Open Agenda Publishing, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Skylar Tibbits, "Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Howard Burton, "Conversations About Astrophysics & Cosmology" (Open Agenda, 2020)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Alex Wellerstein, "Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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May 24, 2021 |
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Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Philip Ball, "The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
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May 10, 2021 |
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Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris, "Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Alan Lightman, "Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings" (Pantheon, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Hannah Marcus, "Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, "Vera Rubin: A Life" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Jennifer M. Rampling, "The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s 'Atalanta fugiens' (1618)" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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John Whysner, "The Alchemy of Disease" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Jeremy England, "Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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James L. Nolan, Jr., "Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Joseph E. Davis, "Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Mel Schwartz, "The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love" (Sounds True, 2017)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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David Kaiser, "Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Matthew Duncombe, "Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Skeptics" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) )
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May 11, 2020 |
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Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Maurice Finocchiaro, "On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Ellen Griffith Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Daniel Kennefick, "No Shadow of Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley" (UBC Press, 2016)
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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John Gribbin, "Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World" (Icon Books, 2019)
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Cara New Daggett, "Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social History" (NYU Press, 2018)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Paul Sutter, "Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence" (Prometheus, 2018)
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Chris Bernhardt, "Quantum Computing for Everyone" (MIT Press, 2019)
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May 02, 2019 |
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Gregory Dawes, "Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science" (Routledge, 2016)
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, “A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Daniel Stolz, “The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Norah MacKendrick, “Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics” (U California Press, 2018).
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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Eli Maor, “Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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Randi Hutter Epstein, “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything” (Norton, 2018)
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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Scott Bembenek, “The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It” (Zoari Press, 2017)
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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Brian Clegg, “The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe” (Icon Books, 2017)
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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Raz Chen-Morris, “Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility” (Penn State UP, 2016)
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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Stephanie Ruphy, “Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered: A New Approach to the (Dis)unity of Science (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
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Mar 15, 2017 |
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Meredith K. Ray, “Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in 17th-Century Italy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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Ian Stewart, “Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe” (Basic Books, 2016)
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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J.D. Trout, “Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Oct 15, 2016 |
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Margaret Morrison, “Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jul 15, 2015 |
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Meredith K. Ray, “Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Jul 08, 2015 |
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Tom McLeish, “Faith and Wisdom in Science” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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May 22, 2015 |
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A. Mark Smith, “From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Mar 21, 2015 |
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Rick Strassman, “DMT and the Soul of Prophecy” (Park Street Press, 2014)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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William Sheehan and Christopher Conselice, “Galactic Encounters” (Springer, 2014)
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Jan 12, 2015 |
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David A. Rothery, “Planet Mercury: From Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World” (Springer, 2014)
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Dec 28, 2014 |
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Vera Kolb, “Astrobiology: An Evolutionary Approach” (CRC Press, 2014)
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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Lawrence Lipking, “What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution” (Cornell UP, 2014)
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Nov 05, 2014 |
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Roberto Trotta, “The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is” (Basic Books, 2014)
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Oct 21, 2014 |
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Don Lincoln, “The Large Hadron Collider” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
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Oct 09, 2014 |
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Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014)
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Sep 29, 2014 |
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Omar W. Nasim, “Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Jun 02, 2014 |
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Oscar E. Fernandez, “Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Apr 17, 2014 |
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David Kaiser, “How the Hippies Saved Physics” (W.W. Norton, 2012)
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Apr 02, 2014 |
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Chuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Feb 14, 2014 |
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Angela N. H. Creager, “Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Jan 07, 2014 |
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Edward Frenkel, “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality” (Basic Books, 2013)
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Nov 08, 2013 |
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Tim Maudlin, “Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time” (Princeton UP, 2012)
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Sep 17, 2013 |
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David Munns, “A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy” (MIT Press, 2012)
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Jul 29, 2013 |
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Brian Clegg, “Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe” (Icon Books, 2013)
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Jun 04, 2013 |
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Lawrence M. Principe, “The Secrets of Alchemy” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
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Mar 18, 2013 |
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Lawrence M. Krauss, “A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing” (Atria, 2012)
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Feb 13, 2013 |
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Audra J. Wolfe, “Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America” (Johns Hopkins, 2013)
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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Katy Price, “Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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Anjan Chakravartty, “A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable” (Cambridge UP, 2007)
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Jul 27, 2012 |
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David Linen, “The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good” (Viking, 2011)
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Jun 26, 2012 |
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Suman Seth, “Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926” (MIT Press, 2010)
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Feb 24, 2012 |
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John Eric Goff, “Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009)
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Aug 15, 2011 |
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Alex Vilenkin, “Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes” (Hill and Wang, 2006)
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Apr 01, 2011 |
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Ian Sample, “Massive: The Missing Particle that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science” (Basic Books, 2010)
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Jan 14, 2011 |
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Fred Spier, “Big History and the Future of Humanity” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
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Oct 01, 2010 |
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Abigail Foerstner, “James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles” (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
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Feb 27, 2008 |