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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Posted on September 25, 2007 7:39 AM • 0 Comments •
Who needs facts when you've got such a damn good-looking book?
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Posted on July 19, 2007 6:32 AM • 42 Comments •
Our lab received a copy of the
Atlas of Creation too!
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Posted on July 18, 2007 9:08 AM • 2 Comments •
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 • 0 Comments •
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 • 0 Comments •
I've added a list of recommended books and worthy science-related causes.
Posted on September 15, 2006 8:41 AM • 2 Comments •
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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Posted on September 14, 2006 7:45 AM • 3 Comments •
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 • 1 Comments •
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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Posted on August 21, 2006 7:45 AM • 7 Comments •