All Stories
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future by Helga Nowotny
Review by Elizabeth Quill.
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California’s Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions by Richard A. Minnich
Review by Rachel Ehrenberg.
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Extreme Birds: The World’s Most Extraordinary and Bizarre Birds by Dominic Couzens
Firefly, 2008, 287 p., $45.
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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis
Addison-Wesley, 2008, 366 p., $25.95.
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The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science by Sheilla Jones
Oxford Univ., 2008, 323 p., $24.95.
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Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry by Joel Paris
Oxford Univ., 2008, 247 p., $29.50.
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Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals by Jack P. Hailman
Harvard Univ., 2008, 257 p., $39.95.
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Sequencing the dead to save the living
Reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions—and may help prevent future die outs.
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No gene is an island
Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness.
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The decider
Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula.
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First detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet
Moving one step closer to finding the fingerprints of life in a habitable planet beyond the solar system, astronomers have for the first time detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet.
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