- Will Kinney, "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
(Mon, May 16, 2022)
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- Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
(Wed, May 11, 2022)
";
- Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
(Wed, May 04, 2022)
";
- Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
(Fri, Apr 29, 2022)
";
- Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
(Wed, Apr 27, 2022)
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- Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal
(Wed, Apr 20, 2022)
";
- John Measey, "How to Write a PhD in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2021)
(Wed, Apr 20, 2022)
";
- Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
(Mon, Apr 18, 2022)
";
- Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
(Wed, Apr 13, 2022)
";
- Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020)
(Fri, Apr 08, 2022)
";
- Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)
(Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
";
- The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti
(Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
";
- Daniel Bolnick, Editor in Chief of "The American Naturalist"
(Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
";
- All About Birds: A Series of Regional Field Guides from Princeton University Press
(Fri, Apr 01, 2022)
";
- Hilary Glasman-Deal, "Science Research Writing For Native and Non-Native Speakers of English" (World Scientific Publishing Europe, 2020)
(Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
";
- Hannah Star Rogers, "Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies" (Routledge, 2021))
(Wed, Mar 30, 2022)
";
- Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID
(Wed, Mar 30, 2022)
";
- Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
(Wed, Mar 30, 2022)
";
- Lucy Cooke, "Bitch: On the Female of the Species" (Basic Books, 2022)
(Thu, Mar 24, 2022)
";
- N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
(Wed, Mar 23, 2022)
";
- Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
(Tue, Mar 22, 2022)
";
- Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022)
(Mon, Mar 21, 2022)
";
- Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
(Mon, Mar 21, 2022)
";
- Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Wed, Mar 16, 2022)
";
- Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer
(Wed, Mar 16, 2022)
";
- Jackie Higgins, "Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses" (Atria Books, 2022)
(Wed, Mar 16, 2022)
";
- Annabel Streets, "52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2022)
(Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
";
- Intellectual Humility in Science: A Discussion with Glenn Sauer
(Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
";
- Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman, "Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" (Columbia UP, 2021)
(Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
";
- The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka
(Tue, Mar 08, 2022)
";
- Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet" (Yale UP, 2021)
(Mon, Mar 07, 2022)
";
- The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk
(Tue, Mar 01, 2022)
";
- David Rettew, "Parenting Made Complicated: What Science Really Knows about the Greatest Debates of Early Childhood" (Oxford UP, 2021)
(Fri, Feb 25, 2022)
";
- Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022)
(Fri, Feb 18, 2022)
";
- Christophe Bernard, Director of Research at INSERM and Editor-in-Chief of eNeuro
(Fri, Feb 18, 2022)
";
- Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Wed, Feb 16, 2022)
";
- Raghuveer Parthasarathy, "So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World" (Princeton UP, 2022)
(Tue, Feb 15, 2022)
";
- In Science We Trust?: An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz
(Tue, Feb 15, 2022)
";
- Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
(Fri, Feb 11, 2022)
";
- Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
(Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
";
- Fritjof Capra, "Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades" (High Road Books, 2021)
(Tue, Feb 08, 2022)
";
- Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
(Mon, Feb 07, 2022)
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- Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2021)
(Fri, Feb 04, 2022)
";
- Emily Levesque, "The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
(Fri, Feb 04, 2022)
";
- Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking" (Pantheon, 2022)
(Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
";
- Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
(Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
";
- Walter R. Tschinkel, "Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests" (Princeton UP, 2021)
(Wed, Feb 02, 2022)
";
- Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
(Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
";
- Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
(Fri, Jan 21, 2022)
";
- Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani, "Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
(Fri, Jan 21, 2022)
";
- John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Cornell UP, 2021)
(Wed, Jan 19, 2022)
";
- Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
(Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
";
- Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)
(Tue, Jan 11, 2022)
";
- Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Mon, Jan 03, 2022)
";
- Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science
(Fri, Dec 31, 2021)
";
- Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
(Fri, Dec 31, 2021)
";
- David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)
(Thu, Dec 30, 2021)
";
- Laurie Winkless, "Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
(Wed, Dec 29, 2021)
";
- Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Tue, Dec 28, 2021)
";
- Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
(Tue, Dec 28, 2021)
";
- Charles Sheppard, “Coral Reefs: Science and Survival” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Dec 27, 2021)
";
- Dave Goulson, "Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse" (Harper, 2021)
(Fri, Dec 24, 2021)
";
- Melinda Baldwin, "Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
(Fri, Dec 24, 2021)
";
- Claudia de Rham, “The Pull of the Stars” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Dec 24, 2021)
";
- David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Thu, Dec 23, 2021)
";
- Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937)
(Wed, Dec 22, 2021)
";
- Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
(Tue, Dec 21, 2021)
";
- Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Thu, Dec 16, 2021)
";
- Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Dec 13, 2021)
";
- Kalanit Grill-Spector, “Vision and Perception” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Dec 10, 2021)
";
- Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
(Fri, Dec 10, 2021)
";
- Benjamin Labatut, "When We Cease to Understand the World" (NYRB, 2021)
(Tue, Dec 07, 2021)
";
- James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
(Tue, Dec 07, 2021)
";
- Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
(Fri, Nov 26, 2021)
";
- Shaking the World: How Geology Can Help Us Address the Big Challenges of the 21st Century
(Fri, Nov 26, 2021)
";
- Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Fri, Nov 26, 2021)
";
- Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Wed, Nov 24, 2021)
";
- Nolan Gasser, "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste" (Flatiron Books, 2019)
(Wed, Nov 24, 2021)
";
- Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021)
(Tue, Nov 23, 2021)
";
- Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
(Fri, Nov 19, 2021)
";
- Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Nov 19, 2021)
";
- Scott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Thu, Nov 18, 2021)
";
- Jill Tartar, “SETI: Astronomy as a Contact Sport” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Tue, Nov 16, 2021)
";
- John S. Tregoning, "Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them" (Oneworld, 2021)
(Tue, Nov 16, 2021)
";
- Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" (Princeton UP, 2021)
(Mon, Nov 15, 2021)
";
- Robert Brooks, "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers" (Columbia UP, 2021)
(Mon, Nov 15, 2021)
";
- Nancy Langston, "Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
(Mon, Nov 15, 2021)
";
- Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Nov 12, 2021)
";
- Paul Steinhardt, “Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
";
- Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021)
(Wed, Nov 10, 2021)
";
- Vinciane Despret, "Living as a Bird" (Polity Press, 2021)
(Wed, Nov 10, 2021)
";
- How to Be Wrong: An Introduction to the Podcast
(Wed, Nov 10, 2021)
";
- Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Wed, Nov 10, 2021)
";
- Lee Smolin, “Examining Time” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Nov 08, 2021)
";
- Bradley Alger, "Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data" (Oxford UP, 2019)
(Mon, Nov 08, 2021)
";
- Vicky Neale, "Why Study Mathematics?" (London Publishing Partnership, 2020)
(Fri, Nov 05, 2021)
";
- Peter S. Ungar, "Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins" (Princeton UP, 2018)
(Mon, Nov 01, 2021)
";
- Jonathan Schooler, “Mind-Wandering and Meta-Awareness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Nov 01, 2021)
";
- Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Oct 29, 2021)
";
- A Conversation with Aliyah Kovner, Science Writer and Science Podcaster
(Wed, Oct 27, 2021)
";
- Jari Saramäki, "How to Write a Scientific Paper: An Academic Self-Help Guide for PhD Students" (2018)
(Tue, Oct 26, 2021)
";
- Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021)
(Fri, Oct 22, 2021)
";
- Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020)
(Wed, Oct 20, 2021)
";
- Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications
(Wed, Oct 20, 2021)
";
- Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley, "Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean" (Millbrook Press, 2021)
(Wed, Oct 20, 2021)
";
- Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Tue, Oct 19, 2021)
";
- Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
(Tue, Oct 19, 2021)
";
- Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)
(Fri, Oct 15, 2021)
";
- The Scholarly Journal: An Interview with Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz of "Soil Biology and Biochemistry"
(Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
";
- Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Oct 11, 2021)
";
- Michael Yudell, "Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century" (Columbia UP, 2018)
(Fri, Oct 08, 2021)
";
- Caitlin Donohue Wylie, "Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Fri, Oct 08, 2021)
";
- 65 Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
(Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
";
- David B. Williams, "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (U Washington Press, 2021)
(Wed, Oct 06, 2021)
";
- Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Wed, Oct 06, 2021)
";
- Jaap-Henk Hoepman, "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Oct 05, 2021)
";
- Michael Moore, "We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
(Mon, Oct 04, 2021)
";
- Kerry F. Crawford and Leah C. Windsor, "The PhD Parenthood Trap: Gender, Bias, and the Elusive Work-Family Balance in Academia" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
(Mon, Oct 04, 2021)
";
- Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021)
(Fri, Oct 01, 2021)
";
- Sandro Galea, "The Contagion Next Time" (Oxford UP, 2021)
(Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
";
- Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
";
- Sarah Nannery and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
(Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
";
- Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
";
- Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
";
- Eric. S. Hintz, "American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
";
- Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
";
- Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
";
- Jonathan Rees, "The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
";
- Tony Leggett, “The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
";
- Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)
(Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
";
- Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019)
(Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
";
- Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Sep 24, 2021)
";
- Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
(Fri, Sep 24, 2021)
";
- Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021)
(Thu, Sep 23, 2021)
";
- Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
(Wed, Sep 22, 2021)
";
- Joshua Schimel, "Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded" (Oxford UP, 2011)
(Wed, Sep 22, 2021)
";
- Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
(Wed, Sep 22, 2021)
";
- Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 21, 2021)
";
- Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 21, 2021)
";
- Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
(Fri, Sep 17, 2021)
";
- Princeton UP's "Pedia" Series: Beautiful, Short Books About Big, Important Subjects
(Fri, Sep 17, 2021)
";
- Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, "The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance" (HarperOne, 2021)
(Thu, Sep 16, 2021)
";
- Ann Vileisis, "Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish" (Oregon State UP, 2020)
(Wed, Sep 15, 2021)
";
- Lauren Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021)
(Wed, Sep 15, 2021)
";
- Mariska van Sprundel, "Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Sep 14, 2021)
";
- Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Fri, Sep 10, 2021)
";
- Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Fri, Sep 10, 2021)
";
- Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
";
- Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
(Wed, Sep 08, 2021)
";
- Emily O'Gorman, "Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin" (U Washington Press, 2021)
(Wed, Sep 08, 2021)
";
- Joanna Haigh, “Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Sep 06, 2021)
";
- Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
(Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
";
- Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
";
- Jemma Wadham, "Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
(Wed, Sep 01, 2021)
";
- Alfred S. Posamentier, "Math Tricks: The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers" (Prometheus Books, 2021)
(Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
";
- Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
";
- Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Tue, Aug 24, 2021)
";
- Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
(Fri, Aug 20, 2021)
";
- Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020)
(Thu, Aug 19, 2021)
";
- Raghav Rajagopalan, "Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis" (Springer Nature, 2020)
(Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
";
- P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
";
- Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
";
- Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker, "Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing" (MIT Press, 2021)
(Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
";
- Mikkael A. Sekeres, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia" (MIT Press, 2020)
(Mon, Aug 16, 2021)
";
- Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Aug 16, 2021)
";
- Lisa Feldman Barrett, “Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Aug 13, 2021)
";
- Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, "When Maps Become the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
(Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
";
- Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)
(Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
";
- Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
(Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
";
- Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Mon, Aug 09, 2021)
";
- Chiara Marletto, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals" (Viking, 2021)
(Mon, Aug 09, 2021)
";
- Freeman Dyson, “Pushing the Boundaries” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Aug 06, 2021)
";
- Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021)
(Fri, Aug 06, 2021)
";
- Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
(Wed, Aug 04, 2021)
";
- Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
(Wed, Aug 04, 2021)
";
- Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
(Mon, Aug 02, 2021)
";
- Joseph Curtin, “The Science of Siren Songs: Stradivari Unveiled” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Fri, Jul 30, 2021)
";
- James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
(Fri, Jul 30, 2021)
";
- Stefan Collini, “The Two Cultures, Revisited” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Wed, Jul 28, 2021)
";
- John Horgan, "Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science" (MIT Press, 2020)
(Fri, Jul 23, 2021)
";
- James Robert Brown, “Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Thu, Jul 22, 2021)
";
- Terry McGlynn, "The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
(Mon, Jul 19, 2021)
";
- John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
(Mon, Jul 19, 2021)
";
- Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021)
(Fri, Jul 16, 2021)
";
- Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Wed, Jul 14, 2021)
";
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021)
(Tue, Jul 13, 2021)
";
- Nichola Raihani, "The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
(Mon, Jul 12, 2021)
";
- Alyssa Ney, "The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
(Fri, Jul 09, 2021)
";
- Warren Mansell, "The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory" (Academic Press, 2020)
(Thu, Jul 08, 2021)
";
- Faith Kearns, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement" (Island Press, 2021)
(Mon, Jun 28, 2021)
";
- Stuart Farrimond, "The Science of Living: 162 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine" (DK Publishing, 2020)
(Wed, Jun 23, 2021)
";
- Howard Burton, "First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute" (Open Agenda Publishing, 2021)
(Mon, Jun 21, 2021)
";
- Howard Burton, "Conversations About Neuroscience" (Open Agenda, 2020)
(Mon, Jun 14, 2021)
";
- Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021)
(Mon, Jun 14, 2021)
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(Thu, Oct 24, 2019)
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(Fri, Oct 18, 2019)
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(Mon, Oct 14, 2019)
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(Thu, Sep 05, 2019)
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(Fri, Aug 30, 2019)
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(Tue, Aug 13, 2019)
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(Mon, Aug 12, 2019)
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(Thu, Jul 18, 2019)
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(Fri, Jun 28, 2019)
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(Mon, Jun 10, 2019)
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(Tue, May 07, 2019)
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(Thu, May 02, 2019)
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(Thu, Feb 07, 2019)
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(Mon, Jan 28, 2019)
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(Wed, Jan 16, 2019)
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(Tue, Jan 15, 2019)
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(Wed, Jan 02, 2019)
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(Mon, Dec 31, 2018)
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(Fri, Dec 28, 2018)
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(Wed, Dec 26, 2018)
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(Fri, Dec 14, 2018)
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(Thu, Dec 06, 2018)
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(Wed, Nov 28, 2018)
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- Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, “A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
(Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
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- David P. Barash, “Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
(Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
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(Fri, Nov 09, 2018)
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(Fri, Oct 12, 2018)
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(Thu, Oct 11, 2018)
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(Tue, Oct 09, 2018)
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- Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)
(Thu, Oct 04, 2018)
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(Thu, Oct 04, 2018)
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(Thu, Sep 27, 2018)
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(Mon, Sep 17, 2018)
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- Andrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
(Thu, Sep 13, 2018)
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(Wed, Sep 05, 2018)
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- Dorothy H. Crawford, “Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History” (Oxford UP, 2018)
(Thu, Aug 09, 2018)
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- Joëlle Gergis, “Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia” (Melbourne UP, 2018)
(Fri, Jul 27, 2018)
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- Sabina Leonelli, “Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
(Fri, Jul 27, 2018)
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- Randi Hutter Epstein, “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything” (Norton, 2018)
(Wed, Jul 18, 2018)
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- Eric Winsberg, “Philosophy and Climate Science” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
(Mon, Jul 16, 2018)
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(Tue, Jul 10, 2018)
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- Jonathan W. Marshall, “Performing Neurology: The Dramaturgy of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
(Tue, May 29, 2018)
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- Jörg Matthias Determann, “Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories, and Nationalism in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
(Fri, May 11, 2018)
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(Thu, Apr 26, 2018)
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(Mon, Apr 23, 2018)
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(Tue, Apr 17, 2018)
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(Fri, Apr 13, 2018)
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- Thomas Morris, “The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations” (Thomas Dunne, 2018)
(Wed, Apr 11, 2018)
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- Molly Ladd-Taylor, “Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
(Wed, Mar 28, 2018)
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- Menachem Fisch, “Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency” (U Chicago Press, 2017 )
(Thu, Mar 15, 2018)
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- Andrew Lees, “Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment” (Notting Hill Editions, 2017)
(Mon, Mar 12, 2018)
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(Wed, Mar 07, 2018)
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(Tue, Feb 20, 2018)
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- Dmitry Novikov, “Cybernetics: Past to Future” (Springer Verlag, 2016)
(Thu, Feb 15, 2018)
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- Howard I. Kushner, “On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
(Wed, Feb 14, 2018)
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- Ty Tashiro, “Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome” (Harper Collins, 2017)
(Tue, Feb 13, 2018)
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(Wed, Jan 31, 2018)
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(Fri, Dec 29, 2017)
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(Fri, Dec 08, 2017)
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(Sat, Nov 25, 2017)
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(Thu, Nov 02, 2017)
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(Mon, Oct 23, 2017)
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- Michael Wintroub, “The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge Across the Sixteenth-Century World” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
(Wed, Oct 04, 2017)
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- Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017)
(Tue, Sep 19, 2017)
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- Jan De Winter, “Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)
(Fri, Sep 15, 2017)
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- Iwan Rhys Morus, ed.,”The Oxford Illustrated History of Science” (Oxford UP, 2017)
(Thu, Sep 07, 2017)
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- Ron Edwards, “The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau” (Oxford UP, 2016)
(Fri, Aug 25, 2017)
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- Robert Wright, “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
(Fri, Aug 25, 2017)
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- Gualtiero Piccinini, “Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account” (Oxford UP, 2016)
(Sat, Jul 15, 2017)
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- Brian Clegg, “The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe” (Icon Books, 2017)
(Thu, Jun 29, 2017)
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- Kees van Deemter, “Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
(Thu, Jun 22, 2017)
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- Neil M. Maher, “Apollo in the Age of Aquarius” (Harvard UP, 2017)
(Tue, Jun 20, 2017)
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- Beau Lotto, “Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently” (Hatchette Books, 2017)
(Tue, May 30, 2017)
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- Sophia Roosth, “Synthetic: How Life Got Made” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
(Sat, May 13, 2017)
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- Tara H. Abraham, “Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
(Thu, May 11, 2017)
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- Lisa Messeri, “Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds” (Duke UP, 2016)
(Thu, May 04, 2017)
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- J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017)
(Sat, Apr 29, 2017)
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- Tania Munz, “The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
(Tue, Apr 25, 2017)
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- Raz Chen-Morris, “Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility” (Penn State UP, 2016)
(Wed, Mar 29, 2017)
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(Wed, Mar 29, 2017)
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- Kathleen McAuliffe, “This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society” (Mariner Books, 2017)
(Tue, Mar 21, 2017)
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- Stephanie Ruphy, “Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered: A New Approach to the (Dis)unity of Science (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
(Wed, Mar 15, 2017)
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- Carl Gillett, “Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
(Wed, Feb 15, 2017)
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- Berit Brogaard, “On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion” (Oxford UP, 2015)
(Mon, Feb 13, 2017)
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(Sat, Feb 04, 2017)
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- Projit Bihari Mukharji, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Science: (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
(Mon, Jan 16, 2017)
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- Joshua Howe, “Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
(Tue, Jan 10, 2017)
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(Wed, Jan 04, 2017)
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(Thu, Dec 29, 2016)
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(Fri, Oct 28, 2016)
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- J.D. Trout, “Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science” (Oxford UP, 2016)
(Sat, Oct 15, 2016)
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(Fri, Sep 30, 2016)
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(Thu, Sep 15, 2016)
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(Sun, Sep 11, 2016)
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- Sandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity: A New Logic of Scientific Inquiry” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
(Wed, Sep 07, 2016)
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- James Rodger Fleming, “Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology” (MIT Press, 2016)
(Fri, Aug 26, 2016)
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- Peter Harrison, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)
(Thu, Jul 21, 2016)
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(Tue, Jul 05, 2016)
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- Michael F. Robinson, “The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent” (Oxford UP, 2016)
(Fri, Jun 03, 2016)
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(Mon, May 23, 2016)
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- Eben Kirksey, “Emergent Ecologies” (Duke UP, 2015)
(Mon, Apr 18, 2016)
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(Fri, Apr 15, 2016)
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- David J. Stump, “Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science: Alternative Interpretations of the A Priori” (Routledge, 2015)
(Mon, Feb 15, 2016)
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- Ronald Chase, “Schizophrenia: A Brother Finds Answers in Biological Science” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
(Tue, Jan 26, 2016)
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(Thu, Jan 21, 2016)
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(Wed, Dec 30, 2015)
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(Mon, Dec 21, 2015)
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- Brian Clegg, “How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? The Ultimate Science Quiz Book” (Icon Books, 2015)
(Mon, Dec 07, 2015)
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- Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015)
(Sun, Nov 15, 2015)
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(Wed, Nov 04, 2015)
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(Tue, Oct 13, 2015)
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- Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015)
(Sat, Sep 26, 2015)
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- Sandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
(Fri, Sep 04, 2015)
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(Wed, Aug 19, 2015)
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(Fri, Jul 24, 2015)
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- James A. Secord, “Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
(Fri, Jul 03, 2015)
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- Tom McLeish, “Faith and Wisdom in Science” (Oxford UP, 2014)
(Fri, May 22, 2015)
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- Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015)
(Fri, Apr 17, 2015)
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(Sat, Mar 21, 2015)
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(Mon, Mar 16, 2015)
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(Sun, Mar 15, 2015)
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(Wed, Mar 11, 2015)
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(Mon, Mar 09, 2015)
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(Fri, Jan 30, 2015)
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(Fri, Jan 16, 2015)
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(Mon, Jan 12, 2015)
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(Sun, Dec 28, 2014)
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(Thu, Dec 11, 2014)
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(Tue, Dec 09, 2014)
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- James Giordano, “Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense” (CRC Press, 2014)
(Thu, Dec 04, 2014)
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(Thu, Nov 13, 2014)
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(Wed, Nov 05, 2014)
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(Tue, Oct 21, 2014)
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- Don Lincoln, “The Large Hadron Collider” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
(Thu, Oct 09, 2014)
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- Mary-Jane Rubenstein, “Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse” (Columbia UP, 2014)
(Mon, Sep 29, 2014)
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- Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014)
(Mon, Sep 29, 2014)
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(Wed, Aug 06, 2014)
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(Thu, Jun 19, 2014)
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- Jane Maienschein, “Embryos Under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life” (Harvard UP, 2014)
(Thu, Jun 12, 2014)
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- Omar W. Nasim, “Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Mon, Jun 02, 2014)
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- Melinda B. Fagan, “Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology: Knowledge in Flesh and Blood” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
(Thu, May 15, 2014)
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- Richard Yeo, “Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
(Wed, May 14, 2014)
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- Oscar E. Fernandez, “Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us (Princeton UP, 2014)
(Thu, Apr 17, 2014)
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- Robert Mitchell, “Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
(Wed, Apr 16, 2014)
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- Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
(Thu, Apr 10, 2014)
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- David Kaiser, “How the Hippies Saved Physics” (W.W. Norton, 2012)
(Wed, Apr 02, 2014)
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- Matthew C. Hunter, “Wicked Intelligence” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Sun, Mar 23, 2014)
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- John Hibbing et al., “Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences” (Routledge, 2013)
(Mon, Feb 24, 2014)
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- Michael Pettit, “The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Wed, Feb 19, 2014)
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- Chuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014)
(Fri, Feb 14, 2014)
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- Hallam Stevens, “Life Out Of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Fri, Jan 31, 2014)
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- John Waldman, “Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations” (Lyons Press, 2013)
(Thu, Jan 16, 2014)
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- Michael Weisberg, “Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World” (Oxford UP, 2013)
(Wed, Jan 15, 2014)
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- Gabriel Finkelstein, “Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany” (MIT Press, 2013)
(Tue, Jan 14, 2014)
";
- Angela N. H. Creager, “Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Tue, Jan 07, 2014)
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- Sarah S. Richardson, Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Wed, Nov 27, 2013)
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- Kim TallBear, “Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
(Sat, Nov 23, 2013)
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- Muhammed Ali Khalidi, “Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
(Fri, Nov 15, 2013)
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- William J. Clancey, “Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers” (MIT Press, 2012)
(Sun, Nov 03, 2013)
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- Dorothy H. Crawford, “Virus Hunt: The Search for the Origin of HIV” (Oxford UP, 2013)
(Wed, Oct 16, 2013)
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- Adam R. Shapiro, “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Fri, Sep 27, 2013)
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- Tim Maudlin, “Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time” (Princeton UP, 2012)
(Tue, Sep 17, 2013)
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- Michael Ruse, “The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Sun, Sep 08, 2013)
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- Hannah S. Decker, “The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual’s Conquest of American Psychiatry” (Oxford UP, 2013)
(Fri, Aug 23, 2013)
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- David Munns, “A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy” (MIT Press, 2012)
(Mon, Jul 29, 2013)
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- Nathaniel Comfort, “The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine” (Yale UP, 2012)
(Fri, Jul 05, 2013)
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- Maki Fukuoka, “The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in 19th-Century Japan” (Stanford UP, 2012)
(Sat, Jun 22, 2013)
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- Brian Clegg, “Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe” (Icon Books, 2013)
(Tue, Jun 04, 2013)
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- Helen Longino, “Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
(Wed, May 15, 2013)
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- Victor Stenger, “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion” (Prometheus, 2012)
(Tue, May 07, 2013)
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(Mon, Apr 22, 2013)
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(Wed, Apr 17, 2013)
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- Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker, “The Road to Maxwell’s Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
(Mon, Apr 15, 2013)
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- Lawrence M. Krauss, “A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing” (Atria, 2012)
(Wed, Feb 13, 2013)
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(Tue, Jan 22, 2013)
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- Alec Foege, “The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great” (Basic Books, 2013)
(Thu, Jan 17, 2013)
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- Michael D. Gordin, “The Pseudo-Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
(Tue, Jan 15, 2013)
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(Wed, Jan 09, 2013)
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- David Sepkoski, “Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline” (University of Chicago, 2012)
(Tue, Nov 20, 2012)
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- Chris Cooper, “Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport” (Oxford University Press, 2012)
(Tue, Oct 09, 2012)
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- Robert Westman, “The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order” (University of California Press, 2011)
(Wed, Aug 29, 2012)
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- Anjan Chakravartty, “A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable” (Cambridge UP, 2007)
(Fri, Jul 27, 2012)
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- P. Kyle Stanford, “Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives” (Oxford UP, 2006)
(Tue, Jul 17, 2012)
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(Mon, Jul 09, 2012)
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(Sat, Jun 09, 2012)
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(Tue, May 15, 2012)
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- Paul Thagard, “The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change” (MIT Press, 2012)
(Tue, May 15, 2012)
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- Lawrence Busch, “Standards: Recipes for Reality” (MIT Press, 2011)
(Mon, Apr 16, 2012)
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- David Edwards, “The Lab: Creativity and Culture” (Harvard University Press, 2010)
(Mon, Apr 02, 2012)
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(Mon, Aug 15, 2011)
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(Wed, Jul 06, 2011)
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- Alex Vilenkin, “Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes” (Hill and Wang, 2006)
(Fri, Apr 01, 2011)
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- Ian Sample, “Massive: The Missing Particle that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science” (Basic Books, 2010)
(Fri, Jan 14, 2011)
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- Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead” (University of Chicago, 2010)
(Fri, Dec 17, 2010)
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- James Fleming, “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control” (Columbia UP, 2010)
(Wed, Oct 20, 2010)
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- Abigail Foerstner, “James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles” (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
(Wed, Feb 27, 2008)
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