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Welcome to The ScienceBlogs Book Club, Seed's virtual venue for hosting discussions on stimulating new titles in science, featuring reviews from across the ScienceBlogs network.
In June, 2010:
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, by Mark Pendergrast
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In October, 2008:
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, by Paul Offit
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In June, 2008:
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life, by Carl Zimmer
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January 27, 2009
Category: Book Review
Review by Maria Brumm, from Green Gabbro Originally posted on January 23, 2009, 5:29 AM Since today is National Pie Day, I thought I would list a few of my favorite cookbooks. In particular, the ones that have taught me...
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January 26, 2009
Category: Book Review
Review by David Dobbs, from Neuron Culture Originally posted on: January 25, 2009 10:45 PM The book opens so thrillingly -- a plane crash, a last-second Super Bowl victory, and a first chapter that comfortably reconciles Plato and Ovid with...
Posted by Book Club at 10:59 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 25, 2009
Category: Book Review
Review by Chad Orzel, from Uncertain Principles Originally posted on: January 25, 2009, 4:18 PM Michael Brooks's 13 Things That Don't Make Sense turned up on a lot of "Best science books of 2008" lists, and the concept of a...
Posted by Book Club at 9:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 22, 2009
Category: Book Review
Review by Scicurious, from Neurotopia Originally posted on: January 19, 2009 1:27 AM It is rare that a non-fiction book, let alone a non-fiction book about science, makes me laugh so hard I have to put the book down until...
Posted by Book Club at 11:36 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Review
Review by John Lynch, from Stranger Fruit Originally posted on: January 16, 2009 12:56 PM It is always cute when the anti-evolutionists (in all their guises) try to do history; witness here, for example. Veteran observers are not surprised to...
Posted by Book Club at 11:30 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 16, 2009
Category: Book Review
Review by Janet D. Stemwedel, from Adventures in Ethics and Science Originally posted on: January 16, 2009 8:35 AM One less fish by Kim Michelle Toft and Allan Sheather Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing 1998 Within the past week, each of...
Posted by Book Club at 10:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 13, 2009
Category: Book Review
Review by Chad Orzel from Uncertain Principles Originally posted on: Tue, Jan 13, 2009 9:26 AM Or, Brian Greene Writes a Kid's Book... This is a very odd book. It's printed on boards, like a book for very small children,...
Posted by Book Club at 10:13 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 12, 2009
Category: Book Review
Review by Jessica Palmer, on Bioephemera Originally posted on: January 12, 2009 8:20 PM I went to a party the other day wearing the shirt above. I'd seen it online, expressed covetousness, and the staffer actually tracked it down and...
Posted by Book Club at 9:19 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 11, 2009
Category: Book Review
Review by John M. Lynch at Stranger Fruit Originally posted on: January 11, 2009 4:18 PM I've had the pleasure of working behind the scenes in a number of natural history museums. While a grad student, I had an office...
Posted by Book Club at 5:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
