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
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggestContinue Reading
Eye of the Shoal: A Fish-Watcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything by Helen Scales Marine biologist Helen ScalesContinue Reading
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Harman History of science professor Oren Harman uses modern science to create newContinue Reading
1. If you mix clay and rainwater together, you get frogs. Okay, this is not actually a fact, but itContinue Reading
The Infinite Monkey Cage: How to Build a Universe by Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, and Alexandra Feachem BasedContinue Reading
If humans consist of genetic code, then is that code hackable? Can we hack genetic code at a pre-embryonic stageContinue Reading
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer A history of ourContinue Reading
A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life by Dr. Joe Schwarcz Chemist Joe Schwarcz providesContinue Reading
Many moons ago, I wrote a short story inspired by a sentence Henry David Thoreau had written in his journal:Continue Reading
When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt Jim Holt probes the most profoundContinue Reading








