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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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I have a little metric for rationality that I exercise now and then: when I visit a bookstore, I compare the sizes of the religion/new age sections to the size of the science section…if I can find it. Typically, there's...
Posted on November 3, 2008 2:25 PM • 439 Comments
I hope Jerry Coyne will forgive me that my frequent thought as I was reading his new book, Why Evolution Is True(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) was, "Wow, this sure is easier to read than that other book." That other book, of course,...
Posted on October 13, 2008 11:32 AM • 178 Comments
Neal Stephenson writes ambitious books. I got hooked with Snow Crash(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), an amazingly imaginative book about near-future virtual worlds; Zodiac(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) is required reading for anyone interested in chemistry and the environment; I had mixed feelings about Cryptonomicon(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), but only because...
Posted on October 4, 2008 2:34 PM • 104 Comments
If you've got a few hours (he does go on), read Orac's contribution to the Offit book club discussion. It's lots of fun: it's got the anti-vaxing squirrels chittering insanely. If you don't have the time to read the whole...
Posted on October 3, 2008 1:00 AM • 87 Comments
The ScienceBlogs Book Club has started up again, and this time around the book under discussion is Paul Offit's Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). Offit has an entry over there right now,...
Posted on October 1, 2008 11:29 AM • 72 Comments
Many of you already know that Slacktivist has been doing a detailed deconstruction of the first book of the Left Behind series. He has posted a long, painful, entertaining analysis of a few pages in order every Friday for over...
Posted on September 22, 2008 8:16 AM • 65 Comments
Jennifer Oullette has put together a pop-sci book meme (and John Lynch has joined in). It's the usual thing, a long list of books and you're supposed to highlight the ones you've read, this time with the theme being that...
Posted on August 28, 2008 4:59 PM • 134 Comments
Sastra here. I'm about halfway through, and really enjoying, Robert Price's new book, Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms. Bob Price has an interesting background: he started out as a roaring Pentacostal Minister, gradually grew into a high-end...
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Posted on August 10, 2008 1:43 PM • 168 Comments
I published a review in Nature this week, of Ken Miller's Only a Theory(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), and boy, was that a tough one. The catch was that I want the book to do well, and I definitely think it has a place...
Posted on July 31, 2008 3:08 PM • 147 Comments
I'm very fond of Chris Turney's book, Bones, Rocks, and Stars. It's a slender, simple description of the many tools scientists use to figure out how old something is, and when arguing with young earth creationists, it's become the...
Posted on July 2, 2008 10:33 AM • 47 Comments
It's true — we're going to be promoting (or dissecting) select titles in the The ScienceBlogs Book Club, a new feature here. For our first effort, a few of us have read and are discussing Carl Zimmer's Microcosm — you...
Posted on June 3, 2008 3:14 PM • 42 Comments
I've been sent two lists of "10 Books That Screwed Up the World", and I'm not very impressed with either of them. The first is from a new book by Benjamin Wanker Wiker of the same title, published by...
Posted on May 19, 2008 11:03 AM • 266 Comments
One century, you've got Bach, another century, you've got Li'l Markie. Christianity has really gone downhill from its prior status as the font of funding for culture and art and intellectual endeavor to being the being the bottom of...
Posted on May 17, 2008 7:42 AM • 293 Comments
Today, I briefly emerged from my little academic cocoon and stepped outside. I was shocked to discover that the snow had all melted, the lakes were all thawed out, there were birds in the air, and the sun was shining...
Posted on May 11, 2008 3:46 PM • 168 Comments
Hey! Carl Zimmer is giving away free copies of his brand new book, Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) — all you have to do is ask a good question in a comment to stand a chance...
Posted on May 7, 2008 9:29 AM • 28 Comments
