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The often unexamined life of E. coli comes alive in Carl Zimmer's Microcosm.
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Category: book reviews
The often unexamined life of E. coli comes alive in Carl Zimmer's Microcosm.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 11:45 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: book reviews
In a dark room, buried in a nondescript building somewhere in London, an orderly array of new trainees sits silently, listening intently as a senior police official delivers a security briefing....
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From the earliest days of hurricane science to the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season, Mooney's Storm World covers the scientific controversies that have fueled today's wild political and scientific debate over the link between hurricanes and global warming.
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In Big Coal, Jeff Goodell offers an insightful and chilling exposé of the coal industry that leaves the reader shocked by our continued reliance on coal but at a loss for what to do about it.
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Nobel Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development is an understated primer that lays out the current state of the art of developmental biology, shocking the reader with just how much we know about how each one of us came to take our unique but fundamentally similar shapes.
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