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Category: Book Reviews
While I was on blogcation, I got an email from the watchdog group Stinky Journalism, complaining that prominent science author and professor Jared Diamond (Collapse, Guns, Germs and Steel) was in the hot seat again. (You may remember that Stinky...
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Category: Books & Essays
Last week, I braved a nasty sleety Cambridge evening to see Rebecca Skloot read from her excellent new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I'm thrilled to tell you it's finally being released on Amazon tomorrow, so if...
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Category: Book Reviews
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, National Geographic Explorer will be devoting an episode to "Vampire Forensics." You can preview a brief clip below the fold, but I'll warn you now: it's not CSI. It's more scientific ("unfortunately this evidence is...
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Category: Artists & Art
A treasury of scientific and technical illustrations, graphic design, and data visualization. Highly recommended.
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Category: Book Reviews
The famous apple-tree story, from a manuscript by one of Newton's friends: "After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea, under the shade of some apple trees. [Newton] told me, he was just in...
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Category: Book Reviews
KC Cole's new book on the creator of San Francisco's Exploratorium is an absolute delight
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Category: Blogosphere
Oooh, look! "Science Czar" John Holdren has recommended Chris & Sheril's Unscientific America in Foreign Policy Magazine's Global Thinkers Book Club. It's so nice to see the two topics most likely to draw hecklers to my blog, brought together at...
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Category: Book Reviews
A review of Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide: think about how you think, but don't overthink it.
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Category: Book Reviews
Reviewer Jerry Coyne appears to have some of the same reservations I do ("Mooney and Kirshenbaum also fail to support their contention that the knowledge gap between scientists and the public is increasing") - but he ends up voting thumbs...
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Category: Book Reviews
The initial reviews of Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum's new book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future produced a small blogospheric kerfuffle last month. But I think Unscientific America has much more constructive and useful things to offer...
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