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On the Playground with the Bullies of Science

A review of The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Can’t Solve Our Global Problems, by Henry Petroski 274 pages. Knopf, 2010. $26.95 If would-be pocket-protecting scientists were the kids that...

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You, the Reader, Will Die

A review of The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers – How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death by Dick Teresi 368 pages. Random House, 2012 Dick Teresi...

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The Grand Puzzle

A review of The Species Seekers, by Richard Conniff 464 pages, W. W. Norton 2010 Last week brought word of several new discoveries in the animal kingdom: leaf-cutter bees in Texas, transparent fish in...

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Should Your Cat Glow?

A review of Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes 256 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux An unusual cat lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Named Mr. Green Genes, he...

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Physicists and Particles and Synchrotrons. Oh My!

A Review of Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles, by Paul Halpern 288 pages Wiley, 2010 If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past two years, then you’ve probably heard of...

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Of Birds and Brains

A review of Alex & Me, by Irene M. Pepperberg 232 pages MJF Books, 2008   “He’d sometimes say ‘You tickle,’ and bend his head so I could scratch his face. As I did, the white area around his eyes...

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A Science Book that’s Easy to Stomach

A review of Gulp, by Mary Roach W.W. Norton & Co., 2013 352 pages You probably never wanted to know what raw whale skin tastes like (slightly nutty). Or, for that matter, the history of enemas in...

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

A review of Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, by Virginia Morell Crown, 2013 304 pages   One fateful day in March 1838, a twenty-nine-year-old Charles Darwin met a female...

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Assessing the Cosmic Wilderness

A Review of Our Mathematical Universe, by Max Tegmark Knopf, 2014 432 pages   The book opens with a chiller: “A second later, I died.” What follows is not a murder mystery being narrated by the...

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Pruners in Hand

A review of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert Henry Holt and Co, 2014 336 pages Plectostoma sciaphilum was always hard to find. The pea-sized microsnail lived only in one...

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