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In the Aug. 19 SN: Bulletins from the tick wars, roots of Rwandan genocide, spin-resistant spiders, making mums blue, tardigrade saga continues, HIV antibodies from cows, Maxwell’s demon aces memory test and more.
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My Beloved Brontosaurus
Poor Brontosaurus. First named in 1879 when a paleontologist mistook an Apatosaurus skeleton for a new type of long-necked sauropod, Brontosaurus may be the most well-known dinosaur that never existed. Though the error was corrected in scientific circles as early as 1903, the iconic behemoth lingered in museums, movies and the public imagination for decades.
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BOOK REVIEW: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
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Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey
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Heart of Darkness
An astrophysicist and a science historian describe the search for the universe’s unseen dark matter and dark energy.
Princeton Univ., 2013, 299 p., $27.95
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Frankenstein's Cat
This exploration of genetic engineering’s promise envisions a world in which pets are cloned and endangered species can be saved.
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, 241 p., $26