Weather Detectives and Tornado Chasers
“Recent research into our changing climate, and its effect on severe-storm activity in North America, is sobering yet inconclusive.” —BrantleyContinue Reading
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Discuss: August Book Club Picks
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling with Ola RoslingContinue Reading
Aug. 7: Books Published This Week
Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World by Joel Berger Climate change is causing the snow patterns inContinue Reading
Weather Detectives and Tornado Chasers
“Recent research into our changing climate, and its effect on severe-storm activity in North America, is sobering yet inconclusive.” —BrantleyContinue Reading
Discuss: July Book Club Picks
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini Whether looking atContinue Reading
July: Books Published This Month
Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity by Michael Kinch (July 3) Between Hope and Fear tells theContinue Reading
How to Build a Time Machine
For reasons that escape me now, I needed to understand time travel when I was seventeen years old. I bought BrianContinue Reading
June 26: Books Published Today
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggestContinue Reading
June 19: Books Published Today
Eye of the Shoal: A Fish-Watcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything by Helen Scales Marine biologist Helen ScalesContinue Reading
June 12: Books Published This Week
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Harman History of science professor Oren Harman uses modern science to create newContinue Reading
3 Facts You Didn’t Know About Frogs
1. If you mix clay and rainwater together, you get frogs. Okay, this is not actually a fact, but itContinue Reading
