• Science

    2020 Election

    Noam Chomsky on the President, the Pandemic, and the Upcoming Election

    By David Barsamian  October 27, 2020
    New Books Network

    How the Science Community Perpetuated Harmful Myths About Gender

    By New Books Network  October 27, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why You’re Turning Into Your Mother

    By New Books Network  October 22, 2020
    Keen On

    Why We’re Not Defined by
    Our Genes

    By Keen On  October 21, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    A Lab of One’s Own by Rita Colwell and Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Read by Jackie Sanders

    By Behind the Mic   October 20, 2020
    Wildfires

    Rick Bass on Salvaging America’s Forest Arks Against the Coming Fire

    By Rick Bass  October 15, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Life

    By New Books Network  October 5, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What a Video Game Can Teach Us About Getting Through a Pandemic

    By Anna Weltman  October 2, 2020
    Illness

    On Malaria, Drought, and the Personal Consequences of Greed

    By Zoë Dutka  October 1, 2020
    New Books Network

    What Animal Emotions Tell Us About Ourselves

    By New Books Network  October 1, 2020
    Animals

    All Hail the Beaver, Mighty Linchpin of the Natural World

    By Derek Gow and Ben Goldfarb  September 30, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 30, 2020
    Languages

    Meet the PhD Student Inventing a New Scientific Language in Welsh

    By Ally Findley  September 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Are the illustrations in children’s books making kids… dumber?                            

    By Jonny Diamond  September 28, 2020
    Mathematics

    How Storytellers Use Math (Without Scaring People Away)

    By Dan Rockmore  September 28, 2020
    War

    Pesticides, Incendiaries… How US Chemical Companies Endeared Themselves to the Public

    By Frank A. von Hippel  September 25, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Colin Dickey on Why Americans Are So Keen to Believe Conspiracies

    By The Maris Review  September 24, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    It Turns Out Nice People Don’t Actually Finish Last

    By Just the Right Book   September 24, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Would E.T. Have Compassion for Us? Or Just Invade?

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 22, 2020
    Animals

    When in Doubt, Smile Like
    an Axolotl

    By Aimee Nezhukumatathil  September 11, 2020
    New Books Network

    Ann-Sophie Barwich on Cracking the Olfactory Code

    By New Books Network  September 10, 2020
    The Natural World

    Lake Michigan Thinks It’s
    Still an Ocean

    By Jill Sisson Quinn  August 28, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Human Genetics and Racist Pseudoscience

    By New Books Network  August 27, 2020
    Corporate America

    How Corporate Money Has Distorted American Science

    By Clifford D. Conner  August 25, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Challenges Facing Women Who Work in Antarctica

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   August 25, 2020
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