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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.
Despite their pop-culture status, dinosaur species aren’t set in stone, says Switek, a science writer with his own fond memories of Brontosaurus. Their identities are constantly being updated and revised as modern technology and new disco
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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