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Science Future for October 20, 2012
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Science Past from the issue of October 20, 1962
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen’s book has a touch of the big, sweeping suspense novel about it. The next scary new microbe (think the SARS or Ebola viruses) most likely lurks in some animal, waiting to spill over to people. And human behavior, explosively populating the planet and pushing into remote landscapes, is speeding the arrival of the next outbreak. Serious stuff, but writer Quammen mixes gentle explications of disease ecology with deft storytelling.
There’s drama: An accidental needle prick lands a researcher in
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BOOK REVIEW: Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century by James R. Flynn
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Ordering Life: Karl Jordan and the Naturalist Tradition by Kristin Johnson
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The Secrets of Triangles: A Mathematical Journey by Alfred Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann
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Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep by David K. Randall