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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 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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March 31, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Janet Stemwedel On March 26, 2009, at 11:58 AM What is it like to be a woman scientist? In a society where being a woman is somehow a distinct experience from being an ordinary human being, the...
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March 25, 2009
Category: Commentary
Originally posted by David Dobbs On March 23, 2009, at 9:34 AM I've had mixed reactions to Gladwell's writing over the years: I always enjoy reading it, but in Blink, especially, when he was writing about an area I knew...
Posted by Book Club at 11:24 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2009
Category: Book Review
Here's something new, ScienceBlogs Book Clubbers—hopefully the first of many. When we stumbled across Joanne Manaster's science book review channel on YouTube, we were riveted, and we thought you might be, too. We will be posting Joanne's videos here on...
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Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Janet Stemwedel On March 19, 2009, at 4:39 PM Scientists are not usually shy when it comes to voicing their frustration about the public's understanding of how science works, or about the deficits in that understanding. Some...
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March 18, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Brian Switek On March 15, 2009, at 12:05 PM Ancestors are important. We like to know where we came from and what sort of legacy our forebears left, but it has only been recently that we have...
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March 17, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Grrlscientist On March 14, 2009, at 10:59 AM An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.—John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics; 1995). Unlike any of the kids...
Posted by Book Club at 4:44 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2009
Category: Biology
Originally posted by Brian Switek On March 10, 2009, at 11:14 AM In 1857 Richard Owen proposed that our species, Homo sapiens, belonged to a distinct subclass separate from all other primates. He called this new group the Archencephala and...
Posted by Book Club at 11:56 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 11, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Brian Switek On March 8, 2009 6:32 PM On November 8, 1882 the paleontologist O.C. Marsh, popular minister Henry Beecher, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and other influential men of the late 19th century converged on Delmonico's Restaurant in...
Posted by Book Club at 11:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 10, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Jessica Palmer On March 7, 2009, at 11:00 PM Brevity can be a creative coup. Consider Claire Evans' "Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds", which shoehorns our entire history into one minute: as the clock slowly ticks...
Posted by Book Club at 11:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 2009
Category: Evolution
Originally posted by John Lynch On March 6, 2009, at 1:17 PM This being the bicentenary of Darwin's birth - and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his masterwork - many folks seem to have the goal of reading...
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