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Book Review: Freaks of Nature – What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution by Mark S. Blumberg
Review by Elizabeth Quill.
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Music of the hemispheres
Playing instruments gives brains a boost.
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BOOK REVIEW | Falling for Science: Objects in Mind
Review by Kristina Bartlett Brody.
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Book Review: Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat by Richard W. Hartel and AnnaKate Hartel
Review by Dina Fine Maron.
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Book Review: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
Review by Heather Benjamin.
- Science & Society
Science literacy: U.S. college courses really count
Over the past two decades, science literacy in the United States – an estimate of the share of adults who can follow complex science issues and maybe even render an informed opinion on them – has nearly tripled. But – and it’s a big but -- the proportion of people who fall into this category remains small. Just 28 percent.
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Book Review: Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff
Review by Dina Fine Maron.
- Physics
Book Review: Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife
Review by Davide Castelvecchi.
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Enzymes Exposed
Clearer views of the cell’s movers and shakers threaten a century-old mainstay of biology.
- Health & Medicine
BOOK REVIEW | Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer
Review by Nathan Seppa.
