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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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April 14, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Scicurious On April 8, 2009, at 12:02 AM As I'm sure everyone knows by now, Sci LOVES getting books in the mail. Even if I paid for them, I still love seeing them show up in a...
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Category: Book Review
Click here for more video book reviews by Joanne Manaster....
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April 8, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Brian Switek On April 6, 2009, at 8:10 AM One of the unwritten rules of creating a good horror yarn is that the location your story takes place in has to be as frightening as your monster....
Posted by Book Club at 12:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 5, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Jessica Palmer On April 1, 2009, at 7:00 AM I've been as eager as a brain-starved zombie to get my hands on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the Jane Austen mash-up concocted by Seth Grahame-Smith for Quirk...
Posted by Book Club at 11:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 3, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Grrlscientist On March 30, 2009, at 2:55 PM Unlike most people who were raised in a religious household and grew up surrounded by religious people, I never experienced a "crisis of faith" since I never believed there...
Posted by Book Club at 11:15 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 2, 2009
Category: Book Review
Joanne Manaster reviews two books about distinguishing science fact from science fiction in our everyday lives: Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre, and Lies, Damned Lies and Science, by Sherry Seethaler. For more of Joanne's video reviews, see her web page,...
Posted by Book Club at 11:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 1, 2009
Category: Book Review
Originally posted by Grrlscientist On March 27, 2009, at 10:59 AM I have lived and worked with people whom I have decided, in retrospect, were more than merely hateful and mean-spirited, they were just plain evil. So when Barbara Oakley...
Posted by Book Club at 11:07 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
