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Category: books
This year's version of the science blogging anthology, The Open Laboratory 2009, is out and available from Lulu publishing. You can order it in paperback format or as an electronic download. Three cheers to editor Scicurious and series editor Bora...
Posted on: February 23, 2010 10:23 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: blogosphere
The top 50 science blog posts of the year, as judged by a large panel of bloggers, have been announced and will be included in The Open Laboratory 2009. The fourth annual volume of this blog anthology will be published...
Posted on: January 13, 2010 8:06 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: book reviews
The often unexamined life of E. coli comes alive in Carl Zimmer's Microcosm.
Posted on: September 5, 2008 11:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 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....
Posted on: July 8, 2008 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 87 Comments •
Category: internet
Jonathan Zittrain on The Colbert Report
Posted on: June 18, 2008 5:23 PM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Category: book reviews
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.
Posted on: September 25, 2007 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: creationism
Who needs facts when you've got such a damn good-looking book?
Posted on: July 19, 2007 6:32 AM, by Nick Anthis • 42 Comments •
Category: creationism
Our lab received a copy of the Atlas of Creation too!
Posted on: July 18, 2007 9:08 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: books
This one is for my readers in Texas, particularly those in the greater Houston area. Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and blogger at The Intersection, will be in Houston this week to promote his new book...
Posted on: July 15, 2007 6:14 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: books
Bora Zivkovic of A Blog Around the Clock announced this morning that the first ever anthology of science blogging, The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006 is now available for purchase. At the website of the publisher,...
Posted on: January 16, 2007 2:15 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: blogosphere
I've added a list of recommended books and worthy science-related causes.
Posted on: September 15, 2006 8:41 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: book reviews
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.
Posted on: September 14, 2006 7:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: books
I don't have my copy yet of the latest edition of Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science, but I've been told that it's on its way. And, believe me, I'll bump it up to the top of my reading...
Posted on: August 28, 2006 10:40 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: book reviews
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.
Posted on: August 21, 2006 7:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 7 Comments •
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