Volume 91 | Number 5 | September-October 2003
Nino Zanghi, Roderich Tumulka
In Quantum [Un]speakables, physicists recollect John Bell in 30 articles that focus primarily on nonlocality
Thomas Lovejoy
Deforesting the Earth, by Michael Williams, is a signal scholarly achievement, breathtaking in its scope
Michael Taylor
In Safe Food, Marion Nestle offers a damning critique of how food companies and the agencies that regulate them are doing their jobs
Nathan Ensmenger
A review of Who Invented The Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History, by Alice Rowe Burks.
Sheldon Penman
The Delphic Boat: What Genomes Tell Us, by Antoine Danchin, includes lively scientific gossip about the genome battles and ranges philosophically, speculatively and poetically over a vast spectrum of ideas.
Paul MacCready
Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont, revered in Brazil and once the most famous man in France, is the subject of the delightful Wings of Madness
David Singmaster
Want to learn group theory? Grab a Rubik's Cube and David Joyner's new book
Mordechai Feingold
Robert Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren were lifelong friends who contributed individually and jointly to nearly every branch of the mathematical, physical and life sciences. Two recent biographies highlight their
Antonio Lazcano
Paleontologist Andrew Knoll, physicist Fred Adams and geneticist Paul F. Lurquin have each recently tackled the Sisyphean task of providing insights into our planet's infancy and the conditions that led to the appearance of life. There is much to admire about their elegantly written books.
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