Reviews
- Science & Society
The Girls of Atomic City
The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan.
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- Anthropology
Paleofantasy
What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk.
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- Science & Society
Between Man and Beast
An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel.
- Science & Society
A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox
Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science 1474-1550 by John W. Hessler.
- Neuroscience
Pieces of Light
How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough.
- Paleontology
My Beloved Brontosaurus
On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs by Brian Switek.
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BOOK REVIEW: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Review by Nathan Seppa.
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Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey
Organisms in extreme environments — from bacteria deep under the ocean floor to imagined creatures on distant moons — challenge definitions of life. W.W. Norton & Co., 2013, 268 p., $25.95
- Particle Physics
Heart of Darkness
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe (Science Essentials) by Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton.
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