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Debates over definition of planet continue and inspire
Planetary science is in the midst of a revolution. As recently as the early 1990s, “the planets” consisted of just nine famous objects in our solar system that every school kid learned to recognize by name and appearance. But then, advances in astronomical technology unleashed an explosion of new planetary discoveries on two fronts. One […]
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future by Helga Nowotny
Review by Elizabeth Quill.
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California’s Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions by Richard A. Minnich
Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.
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Extreme Birds: The World’s Most Extraordinary and Bizarre Birds by Dominic Couzens
Firefly, 2008, 287 p.,
