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  1. Earth

    Atrazine paper’s challenge: Who’s responsible for accuracy?

    As a new critique of a review paper on atrazine suggests, some papers may simply overtax a journal’s fact-vetting enterprise. Which would be bad for science. And bad for society.

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  2. Book Review: The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved & Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade

    Review by Bruce Bower.

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  3. Letters

    Quantum quirkinessYour special issue on quantum weirdness (SN: 11/20/10, p. 15) was certainly the best presentation I have ever seen. You folks are geniuses and what you did was little short of incredible. It will be difficult (probably impossible) to top it, but keep up the good work. As an aside, could you include more […]

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  4. Book Review: The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray

    Review by Janet Raloff.

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  5. Book Review: The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things by Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf

    Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.

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  6. Book Review: Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an E.R. Psychiatrist by Paul R. Linde

    Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.

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  7. Making Sense of Autistic Spectrum Disorders by James Coplan

    A pediatrician reviews treatments for children with these disorders. Making Sense of Autistic Spectrum Disorders by James Coplan Bantam Books, 2010, 448 p., $25.

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  8. Life

    Book Review: Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation by Michael Keller

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  9. Book Review: Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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  10. Book Review: The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century by Jerome Kagan

    Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.

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  11. The pattern collector

    Neil Sloane's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences outgrows its creator.

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  12. Book Review: Historic Photos of the Manhattan Project by Timothy Joseph

    Review by Sid Perkins.

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