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- Health & Medicine
For athletes, antioxidant pills may not help performance
Supplements of vitamins C, E and other antioxidants may blunt the positive effects of exercise training.
- Cosmology
From Dust to Life
In about 300 pages, this book sums up the history of all that matters — or at least everything made of matter — from the Big Bang to life on Earth.
- Health & Medicine
Elusive baby sleep miracles remain elusive
There is little evidence to support sleep-training interventions for babies younger than six months. Sorry, sleep-deprived parents.
- Health & Medicine
Your baby: The ultimate science experiment
Babies may be serious scientists, but parents can join the fun by trying some simple experiments with their kids.
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BOOK REVIEW: Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science by Christoph Irmscher
Review by Erin Wayman.
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BOOK REVIEW: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Review by Bruce Bower.
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BOOK REVIEW: Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems by Ian Stewart
Review by Tom Siegfried.
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BOOK REVIEW: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Review by Nathan Seppa.
- Archaeology
Telling stories from stone tools
Existing stone tool categories may hide more than they reveal. New methods for analyzing stone artifacts aim to better reconstruct how hominids interacted and moved across Africa, Asia and Europe.
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BOOK REVIEW: Heat: Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places by Bill Streever
Review by Allison Bohac.
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BOOK REVIEW: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
Review by Alexandra Witze.
