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Interviews with Scientists about their New Books
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Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
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Apr 02, 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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Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Emma Frances Bloomfield, "Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Brandon R. Brown, "Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Thomas Metzinger, "The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023)
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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How the Hypothesis Means
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise: A Discussion with Natalie Aviles
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Ludovic Slimak, "The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The Future of Images of Human Evolution
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Free to Investigate: Dr. Scott Atlas on the Freedom in the Sciences
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Jonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Toward Equity in Science: A Discussion with Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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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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Services and Training for Publishing Scientists: The Current Direction of Travel
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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How to Read Scientific Papers: A Discussion with David Evans
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Shark Sciences: A Conversation with Carlee Jackson
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 27, 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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Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Steve Nicholls, "Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Aug 15, 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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The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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The Role of Luck in Science: A Discussion with Nicolas Christin
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Jul 23, 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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Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 20, 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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Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
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May 29, 2023 |
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John D. Aber, "Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change" (Yale UP, 2023)
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May 29, 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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The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
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May 19, 2023 |
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Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia
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May 09, 2023 |
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Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021)
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May 03, 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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The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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What Do Bees, Ants, and Dragonflies Get up to All Day?
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Apr 13, 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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Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Life Extension Therapies
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Mar 11, 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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Measure for Measure Episode 0: Birds
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Making Meaning Episode 21: Throbbing with Life
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Seeing Truth in the Archives
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Feb 09, 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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Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Write it Down: Writing as a Step Toward Better Research
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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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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James D. Stein, "Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2022) Math
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Dec 10, 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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James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022)
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Dec 05, 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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Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Probability
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Alexandr Draganov, "Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications: A Gentle Introduction for Students and Practitioners" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Karen Bakker, "The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 03, 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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Sian E. Harding, "The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" (Mariner Books, 2020)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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The Surprising World of Wasps
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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On Einstein's Discoveries
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers" (CRC Press, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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History, Space, and Getting Things Wrong
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
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Sep 08, 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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Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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John Measey, "How to Publish in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Peter Winkler, "Mathematical Puzzles" (A K Peters, 2020)
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Aug 23, 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 Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Adam Nocek, "Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Joseph Mileti, "Modern Mathematical Logic" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 15, 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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Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Michela Massimi, "Perspectival Realism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
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Jul 08, 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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Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Michael Hannah, "Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Ryan North, "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Carles Lalueza-Fox, "Inequality: A Genetic History" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 24, 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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Agustín Fuentes, "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature" (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
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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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Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Juli Berwald, "Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 16, 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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All About Dwarf Galaxies: A Conversation with Astronomer Charlotte Christensen
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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A. J. Lees, "Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology" (Notting Hill Editions, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Alison F. Richard, "Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Danielle J. Whittaker, "The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Jun 13, 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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Martin Williams, "When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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David George Haskell, "Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction" (Viking, 2022)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Paul Huebener, "Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis" (U Regina Press, 2020)
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Jun 01, 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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The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham
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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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Jack Ashby, "Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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May 24, 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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Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
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May 18, 2022 |
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David M. Peña-Guzmán, "When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 17, 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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Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
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May 11, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
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May 04, 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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John Measey, "How to Write a PhD in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 18, 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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Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Daniel Bolnick, Editor in Chief of "The American Naturalist"
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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All About Birds: A Series of Regional Field Guides from Princeton University Press
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Apr 01, 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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Hannah Star Rogers, "Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies" (Routledge, 2021))
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Lucy Cooke, "Bitch: On the Female of the Species" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Mar 24, 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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Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Mar 21, 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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Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Jackie Higgins, "Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses" (Atria Books, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Annabel Streets, "52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2022)
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Mar 14, 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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Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman, "Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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David Rettew, "Parenting Made Complicated: What Science Really Knows about the Greatest Debates of Early Childhood" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Christophe Bernard, Director of Research at INSERM and Editor-in-Chief of eNeuro
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Feb 16, 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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In Science We Trust?: An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz
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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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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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Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2021)
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Feb 04, 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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Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Walter R. Tschinkel, "Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani, "Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Jan 13, 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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Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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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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Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
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Dec 28, 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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Charles Sheppard, “Coral Reefs: Science and Survival” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 27, 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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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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David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 21, 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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Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Kalanit Grill-Spector, “Vision and Perception” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Dec 10, 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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James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Benjamin Labatut, "When We Cease to Understand the World" (NYRB, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Shaking the World: How Geology Can Help Us Address the Big Challenges of the 21st Century
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Nolan Gasser, "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste" (Flatiron Books, 2019)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 19, 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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John S. Tregoning, "Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them" (Oneworld, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Robert Brooks, "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Nancy Langston, "Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 12, 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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Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Vinciane Despret, "Living as a Bird" (Polity Press, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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How to Be Wrong: An Introduction to the Podcast
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Bradley Alger, "Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Lee Smolin, “Examining Time” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Vicky Neale, "Why Study Mathematics?" (London Publishing Partnership, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Jonathan Schooler, “Mind-Wandering and Meta-Awareness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Peter S. Ungar, "Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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A Conversation with Aliyah Kovner, Science Writer and Science Podcaster
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Jari Saramäki, "How to Write a Scientific Paper: An Academic Self-Help Guide for PhD Students" (2018)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley, "Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean" (Millbrook Press, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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The Scholarly Journal: An Interview with Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz of "Soil Biology and Biochemistry"
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Michael Yudell, "Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Caitlin Donohue Wylie, "Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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65 Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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David B. Williams, "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Jaap-Henk Hoepman, "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Kerry F. Crawford and Leah C. Windsor, "The PhD Parenthood Trap: Gender, Bias, and the Elusive Work-Family Balance in Academia" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Michael Moore, "We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Sarah Nannery and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Sandro Galea, "The Contagion Next Time" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Eric. S. Hintz, "American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 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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Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Sep 27, 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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Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Joshua Schimel, "Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded" (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Princeton UP's "Pedia" Series: Beautiful, Short Books About Big, Important Subjects
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
|
Sep 17, 2021 |
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Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, "The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance" (HarperOne, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Lauren Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Ann Vileisis, "Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish" (Oregon State UP, 2020)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Mariska van Sprundel, "Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021)
|
Sep 10, 2021 |
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Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Emily O'Gorman, "Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
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Sep 08, 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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Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Jemma Wadham, "Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Alfred S. Posamentier, "Math Tricks: The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers" (Prometheus Books, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Raghav Rajagopalan, "Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis" (Springer Nature, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker, "Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Mikkael A. Sekeres, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Lisa Feldman Barrett, “Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, "When Maps Become the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 09, 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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Freeman Dyson, “Pushing the Boundaries” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Joseph Curtin, “The Science of Siren Songs: Stradivari Unveiled” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Stefan Collini, “The Two Cultures, Revisited” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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John Horgan, "Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science" (MIT Press, 2020)
|
Jul 23, 2021 |
|
James Robert Brown, “Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide” (Open Agenda, 2021)
|
Jul 22, 2021 |
|
Terry McGlynn, "The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
|
Jul 19, 2021 |
|
John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
|
Jul 19, 2021 |
|
Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021)
|
Jul 16, 2021 |
|
Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021)
|
Jul 14, 2021 |
|
Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021)
|
Jul 13, 2021 |
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Nichola Raihani, "The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
|
Jul 12, 2021 |
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Alyssa Ney, "The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
|
Jul 09, 2021 |
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Warren Mansell, "The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory" (Academic Press, 2020)
|
Jul 08, 2021 |
|
Faith Kearns, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement" (Island Press, 2021)
|
Jun 28, 2021 |
|
Stuart Farrimond, "The Science of Living: 162 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine" (DK Publishing, 2020)
|
Jun 23, 2021 |
|
Howard Burton, "First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute" (Open Agenda Publishing, 2021)
|
Jun 21, 2021 |
|
Howard Burton, "Conversations About Neuroscience" (Open Agenda, 2020)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
|
Jun 09, 2021 |
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Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, "Objectivity" (Zone Books, 2010)
|
Jun 07, 2021 |
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Howard Burton, "Conversations About Biology" (Open Agenda, 2020)
|
Jun 07, 2021 |
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Lydia Denworth, "Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
|
Jun 07, 2021 |
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Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 02, 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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Martin Paul Eve et al. "Reading Peer Review: PLOS One and Institutional Change in Academia" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 31, 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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Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019)
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May 28, 2021 |
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Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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May 26, 2021 |
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Deborah R. Coen, "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Joseph Rouse, "Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Adam Rogers, "Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
|
May 17, 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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Bijal P. Trivedi, "Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever" (Benbella, 2020)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Lucy van de Wiel, "Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging" (NYU Press, 2020)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Michelle Nijhuis, "Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction" (Norton, 2021)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Jason Karlawish, "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
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May 11, 2021 |
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David Weill, "Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant" (Post Hill Press, 2021)
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May 11, 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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Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020)
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May 03, 2021 |
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Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Leigh Calvez, "The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds" (Sasquatch Books, 2016)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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James Doucet-Battle, "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Allison Cobb, "Plastic: An Autobiography" (Nightboat Books, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Christopher Thaiss, "Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century" (Broadview Press, 2019)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Teya Brooks Pribac, "Enter the Animal: Cross-Species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality" (Sydney UP, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Avi Loeb, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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James S. J. Schwartz, "The Value of Science in Space Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, "The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Doug Bierend. "In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms" (Chelsea Green, 2021)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Rick McIntyre, "The Reign of Wolf 21: In the Valley of the Druid King" (Greystone Books, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Barbara J. King, "Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Courtney E. Thompson, "An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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A. Blair and K. von Greyerz, "Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Alisha Rankin, "The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science" (Alisha Rankin, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Mitchell L. Hammond, "Epidemics and the Modern World" (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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David Payne on the Community of Scientists and Diversity
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Jeremy DeSilva, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human" (Harper, 2021)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Edzard Ernst, "Chiropractic: Not All That It's Cracked Up to Be" (Springer, 2020)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Han Yu, "Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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J. Jureidini and L. B. McHenry, "The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research" (Wakefield Press, 2020)
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Erika Engelhaupt, "Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science" (National Geographic, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Imitating Viruses: How Technology Can Help Us Be Better Prepared For Pandemics
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Tracie White and Ronald W. Davis, "The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Hunt to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son" (Hachette, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Milo Beckman, "Math Without Numbers" (Dutton, 2020)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Seema Yasmin, "Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Feb 22, 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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Emily Willingham, "Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis" (Avery, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 17, 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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Henry T. Greely, "CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans" (The MIT Press, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Thomas Pradeu, "Philosophy of Immunology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Jack Price, "The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Feb 10, 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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Michael Rossi, "The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America" (Chicago UP, 2019)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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J. Rosenhouse, "Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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David Sepkoski, "Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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R. Douglas Fields, "Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better" (BenBella, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Rob DeSalle, "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Can we Bring Extinct Species Back?: A Conversation with Beth Shapiro
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Daniel Lieberman, "Exercised: How We Did Not Evolve to Exercise and What to Do about It" (Pantheon, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Jonathan C. Slaght, "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl" (FSG, 2020)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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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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Russell T. Warne, "In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Louise M. Pryke, "Turtle" (Reaction Books, 2020)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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James D. Stein, "The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat: Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive" (World Scientific, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Scholarly Communications: A Discussion with Elisa De Ranieri, Editor-in-Chief of "Nature Communications"
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Religion, and the Search for Truth" (Orbis Books, 2020)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Anna Weltman, "Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Soraya de Chadarevian, "Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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K. C. Smith and C. Mariscal, "Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 23, 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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Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds (Vintage, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Joy of Geometry" (Prometheus, 2020)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Hugh Raffles, "The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time" (Pantheon Books, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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M. Bekoff and J. Pierce, "The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age" (Beacon Press, 2017)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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I. Newkirk and G. Stone, "Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds" (Vintage, 2020)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Robert Plomin, "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Rene Almeling, "GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health" (U California Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Scholarly Communication: An Interview with Joerg Heber of PLOS
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond" (Transcript Verlag, 2020)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Kat Arney, "Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal" (Benbella Books, 2020)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Morality in Nature: What Honeybees and Flowers Can Tell Us about its Origin
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Oct 07, 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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Frans de Waal, "Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves" (Norton, 2019)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Scholarly Communications: An Interview with Helen Pearson of 'Nature'
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Zachary Dorner, "Merchants of Medicine: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long 18th Century" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Carl Safina, "Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace" (Henry Holt, 2020)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Jessica Pierce, "Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Katherine Kinzler, "How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do - And What It Says About You" (HMH, 2020)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (The Experiment, 2020)
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science" (Penguin Books, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Solomon Goldstein-Rose, "The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change" (Melville House, 2020)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Marc Zimmer, "The State of Science" (Prometheus Books, 2020)
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Jul 21, 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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Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming" (HarperOne, 2020)
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Henry M. Cowles, "The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Controlling the Scientific Narrative: Randomized Controlled Trials and The Manipulation of “Control”
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Jun 03, 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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A. M. Barton and W. S. Keeton, "Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests" (Island Press, 2018)
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May 14, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Wade Roush, "Extraterrestrials" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Jodi Hilty, "Corridor Ecology: Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation" (Island Press, 2019)
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Wenfei Tong, "Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Ray Dorsey, "Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action" (Public Affairs, 2020)
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Apr 06, 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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Adrian Currie, "Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences" (MIT Press, 2018)
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Andrew Leigh, "Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Kareem Khalifa, "Understanding, Explanation and Scientific Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Amy Shira Teitel, "Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Alistair Sponsel, "Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Gil Eyal, "The Crisis of Expertise" (Polity, 2019)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Travis Dumsday, "Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Michael F. Robinson, "The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2006)
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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David Adger, "Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Brian Clegg, "Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge" (Icon Books, 2019)
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Neil Maher, "Apollo in the Age of Aquarius" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Jan 24, 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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James Schwartz, "The Ethics of Space Exploration" (Springer, 2016)
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts" (Routledge, 2017)
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Steve Fuller, "The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data" (Basic, 2019)
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History" (UBC Press, 2018)
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Julian Havil, "Curves for the Mathematically Curious" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Michael E. Mann, "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars : Dispatches from the Front Lines" (2012)
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Nov 11, 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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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Theodore Dalrymple, "False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine" (Encounter Books, 2019)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World" (FSG, 2018)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine" (Abrams Press, 2019)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Justin Garson, "What Biological Functions are and Why They Matter" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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David Sinclair, "LifeSpan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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E. H. Ecklund and D. R. Johnson, "Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think of Religion" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Emily Lakdawalla, "The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job" (Springer, 2018)
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Michael Kodas, "Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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David Philip Miller, "The Life and Legend of James Watt" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Samir Okasha, "Agents and Goals in Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" (W. W. Norton, 2018)
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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John D. Hawks, "Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story" (National Geographic, 2017)
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Jul 19, 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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Robin Scheffler, “A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Philip W. Clements, "Science in an Extreme Environment: The American Mount Everest Expedition" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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David Munns, "Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Nicholas Shea, "Representation in Cognitive Science" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak" (Springer, 2018)
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Jessica Pierce, "Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible" (New World Library, 2019)
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May 07, 2019 |
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Eric Topol, "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again" (Basic Books, 2019)
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May 07, 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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Kate Brown, "Manuel for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" (Norton, 2019)
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World" (MIT Press, 2018)
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning: The Experiences of Minoritised Groups" (Routledge, 2019)
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Rick Van Noy, "Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson, "Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body" (Avery, 2017)
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Jonathan Birch, "The Philosophy of Social Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Peter Hotez, "Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Elliott Sober, "The Design Argument" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Benoît Majerus, "From the Middle Ages to Today: Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris" (Parigramme, 2018)
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Maria Kronfeldner, "What's Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept" (MIT Press, 2018)
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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George E. Mobus and Michael C. Kalton, "Principles of Systems Science" (Springer Verlag, 2015)
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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William B. Young and Stephen D. Silberstein, "Navigating Life with Migraine and Other Headaches" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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Paul A. Offit, "Do You Believe in Magic?: Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural" (Harper, 2014)
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Dec 28, 2018 |
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Steve Stewart-Williams, "The Ape That Understood the Universe: How Mind and Culture Evolve" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Samuel Schindler, "Theoretical Virtues in Science: Discovering Reality Through Theory" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, "The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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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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David P. Barash, “Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Andrew C. A. Elliott, “Is That a Big Number?” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Rachel Z. Arndt, “Beyond Measure” (Sarabande Books, 2018)
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Theodore M. Porter, “Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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Hervé Guillemain, “Schizophrenics in the Twentieth Century: The Side Effects of History” (Alma, 2018)
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Byron Reese, “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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S. Hayes and D. S. Wilson, “Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior” (Context Press, 2018)
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Anjan Chakravartty, “Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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Andrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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Albert Müller, ed., “The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days With Second-Order Cybernetics” (Fordham UP, 2014)
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Dorothy H. Crawford, “Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Joëlle Gergis, “Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia” (Melbourne UP, 2018)
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Jul 27, 2018 |
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Sabina Leonelli, “Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jul 27, 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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Eric Winsberg, “Philosophy and Climate Science” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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Sam Kean, “The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code” (Back Bay, 2013)
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Jonathan W. Marshall, “Performing Neurology: The Dramaturgy of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
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May 29, 2018 |
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Jörg Matthias Determann, “Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories, and Nationalism in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
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May 11, 2018 |
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Sam Kean, “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons” (Little, Brown and Co., 2015)
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Sigrid Schmalzer, et. al., “Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists (UMass Press, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Susan M. Squier, “Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor” (Duke UP, 2017)
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Karl H. Muller et al., “New Horizons for Second-Order Cybernetics” (World Scientific, 2017)
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Thomas Morris, “The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations” (Thomas Dunne, 2018)
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Molly Ladd-Taylor, “Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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Menachem Fisch, “Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency” (U Chicago Press, 2017 )
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Andrew Lees, “Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment” (Notting Hill Editions, 2017)
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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Henry Jay Przybylo, “Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia” (W.W. Norton, 2017)
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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Michael Shermer, “Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia” (Henry Holt, 2018)
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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Dmitry Novikov, “Cybernetics: Past to Future” (Springer Verlag, 2016)
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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Howard I. Kushner, “On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Ty Tashiro, “Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome” (Harper Collins, 2017)
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton, “Managing Madness” (U Manitoba Press, 2017)
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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Dan Flores, “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History” (Basic Books, 2016)
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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Abby Hafer, “The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not” (Cascade Books, 2015)
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Nov 25, 2017 |
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Climate Change Skepticism with Lawrence Torcello
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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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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Michael Wintroub, “The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge Across the Sixteenth-Century World” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017)
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Jan De Winter, “Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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Iwan Rhys Morus, ed.,”The Oxford Illustrated History of Science” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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Ron Edwards, “The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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Robert Wright, “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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Gualtiero Piccinini, “Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jul 15, 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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Kees van Deemter, “Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Neil M. Maher, “Apollo in the Age of Aquarius” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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Beau Lotto, “Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently” (Hatchette Books, 2017)
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May 30, 2017 |
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Sophia Roosth, “Synthetic: How Life Got Made” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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May 13, 2017 |
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Tara H. Abraham, “Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
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May 11, 2017 |
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Lisa Messeri, “Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds” (Duke UP, 2016)
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May 04, 2017 |
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J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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Tania Munz, “The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Apr 25, 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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Colleen Derkatch, “Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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Kathleen McAuliffe, “This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society” (Mariner Books, 2017)
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Mar 21, 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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Carl Gillett, “Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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Berit Brogaard, “On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Feb 13, 2017 |
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Randy Olson, “Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)
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Feb 04, 2017 |
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Projit Bihari Mukharji, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Science: (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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Joshua Howe, “Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Brian Clegg, “Are Numbers Real? The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World (St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
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Jan 04, 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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Pamela S. Turner, “Crow Smarts/Samurai Rising” (HMH/Charlesbridge, 2016)
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Oct 28, 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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Asif A. Siddiqi, “The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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Kenneth Schaffner, “Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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Alfred S. Posamentier and Robert Geretschlager, “The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration Beyond the Line” (Prometheus Books, 2016)
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Sep 11, 2016 |
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Sandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity: A New Logic of Scientific Inquiry” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Sep 07, 2016 |
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James Rodger Fleming, “Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology” (MIT Press, 2016)
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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Peter Harrison, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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Marta Zaraska, “Meathooked: The History and Science of our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat” (Basic Books, 2016)
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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Michael F. Robinson, “The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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Beineke and Rosenhouse, eds., “The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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May 23, 2016 |
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Eben Kirksey, “Emergent Ecologies” (Duke UP, 2015)
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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Eric Dietrich, “Excellent Beauty: The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World” (Columbia UP, )
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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David J. Stump, “Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science: Alternative Interpretations of the A Priori” (Routledge, 2015)
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Feb 15, 2016 |
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Ronald Chase, “Schizophrenia: A Brother Finds Answers in Biological Science” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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Dale Jamieson, “Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed – and What It Means for Our Future” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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Peter J. Gloviczki, “Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)
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Dec 30, 2015 |
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Natasha Myers, “Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter” (Duke UP, 2015)
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Dec 21, 2015 |
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Brian Clegg, “How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? The Ultimate Science Quiz Book” (Icon Books, 2015)
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Dec 07, 2015 |
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Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015)
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Nov 15, 2015 |
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Anita Guerrini, “The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Nov 04, 2015 |
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Eugene Raikhel, Todd Meyers, Emily Yates-Doerr, “Somatosphere.net”
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Sep 26, 2015 |
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Sandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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Aug 19, 2015 |
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Raf De Bont, “Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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James A. Secord, “Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
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Jul 03, 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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Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015)
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Apr 17, 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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Nick Wilding, "Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2014)
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Mar 16, 2015 |
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Nick Wilding, “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Edmund Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” (
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Mar 11, 2015 |
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Orit Halpern, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945” (Duke UP, 2014)
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Mar 09, 2015 |
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Nicolas Rasmussen, “Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
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Jan 30, 2015 |
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Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain, “Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
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Jan 16, 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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Daniel Margocsy, “Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
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Dec 09, 2014 |
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James Giordano, “Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense” (CRC Press, 2014)
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Dec 04, 2014 |
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William J. Turkel, “Spark from the Deep” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
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Nov 13, 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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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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David N. Livingstone, “Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
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Aug 06, 2014 |
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Thomas McFaul and Al Brunsting, “God is Here to Stay: Science, Evolution, and Belief in God” (Wipf and Stock, 2014)
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Jun 19, 2014 |
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Jane Maienschein, “Embryos Under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Jun 12, 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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Melinda B. Fagan, “Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology: Knowledge in Flesh and Blood” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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May 15, 2014 |
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Richard Yeo, “Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
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May 14, 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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Robert Mitchell, “Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
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Apr 16, 2014 |
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Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
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Apr 10, 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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Matthew C. Hunter, “Wicked Intelligence” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Mar 23, 2014 |
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John Hibbing et al., “Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences” (Routledge, 2013)
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Feb 24, 2014 |
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Michael Pettit, “The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Feb 19, 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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Hallam Stevens, “Life Out Of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Jan 31, 2014 |
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John Waldman, “Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations” (Lyons Press, 2013)
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Jan 16, 2014 |
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Michael Weisberg, “Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Jan 15, 2014 |
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Gabriel Finkelstein, “Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany” (MIT Press, 2013)
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Jan 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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Sarah S. Richardson, Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Nov 27, 2013 |
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Kim TallBear, “Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
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Nov 23, 2013 |
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Muhammed Ali Khalidi, “Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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Nov 15, 2013 |
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William J. Clancey, “Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers” (MIT Press, 2012)
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Nov 03, 2013 |
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Dorothy H. Crawford, “Virus Hunt: The Search for the Origin of HIV” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Oct 16, 2013 |
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Adam R. Shapiro, “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Sep 27, 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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Michael Ruse, “The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Sep 08, 2013 |
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Hannah S. Decker, “The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual’s Conquest of American Psychiatry” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Aug 23, 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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Nathaniel Comfort, “The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine” (Yale UP, 2012)
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Jul 05, 2013 |
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Maki Fukuoka, “The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in 19th-Century Japan” (Stanford UP, 2012)
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Jun 22, 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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Helen Longino, “Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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May 15, 2013 |
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Victor Stenger, “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion” (Prometheus, 2012)
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May 07, 2013 |
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Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)
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Apr 22, 2013 |
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Kathleen M. Vogel, “Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
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Apr 17, 2013 |
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Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker, “The Road to Maxwell’s Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
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Apr 15, 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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Christopher I. Beckwith, “Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World (Princeton University Press, 2012)
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Jan 22, 2013 |
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Alec Foege, “The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great” (Basic Books, 2013)
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Jan 17, 2013 |
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Michael D. Gordin, “The Pseudo-Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
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Jan 15, 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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David Sepkoski, “Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline” (University of Chicago, 2012)
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Nov 20, 2012 |
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Chris Cooper, “Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport” (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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Oct 09, 2012 |
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Robert Westman, “The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order” (University of California Press, 2011)
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Aug 29, 2012 |
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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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P. Kyle Stanford, “Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives” (Oxford UP, 2006)
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Jul 17, 2012 |
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Hanna Rose Shell, “Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance” (Zone Books, 2012)
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Jul 09, 2012 |
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Philip Kitcher, “Science in a Democratic Society” (Prometheus Books, 2011)
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Jun 09, 2012 |
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D. Graham Burnett, “The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
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May 15, 2012 |
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Paul Thagard, “The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change” (MIT Press, 2012)
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May 15, 2012 |
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Lawrence Busch, “Standards: Recipes for Reality” (MIT Press, 2011)
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Apr 16, 2012 |
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David Edwards, “The Lab: Creativity and Culture” (Harvard University Press, 2010)
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Apr 02, 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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Mark Stephen Meadows, “We Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact” (Lyons Press, 2011)
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Jul 06, 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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Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead” (University of Chicago, 2010)
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Dec 17, 2010 |
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James Fleming, “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control” (Columbia UP, 2010)
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Oct 20, 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 |