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The Meme Machine, Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in America and more . . .


Time-diving

Tom Paulson

A review of Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time, by Peter D. Ward.


Dawkins's Rainbow Reduces Science to Truth, Beauty--and Fantasy

Robert Proctor

A review of Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder, by Richard Dawkins.


Awestruck

Alan Packer

A review of The Sacred Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough.


Brittle, Versatile, Lovely: Glass's Unbroken Legacy

Joseph Lambert

A review of Glass: From the First Mirror to Fiber Optics, the Story of the Substance that Changed the World, by William S. Ellis.


The Fixer

Ben Van Houten

A review of DNA Damage and Repair, edited by Jac Nickoloff and Merl Hoekstra.


Life Among the Fossils

Tim Tokaryk

A review of Dinosaur Impressions: Postcards from a Paleontologist, by Philippe Taquet.


Two Takes on Our Pulpy, Leafy Friends and Their Charms

Donald McGraw

A review of Native American Ethnobotany, by Daniel E. Moerman and Medicinal Plants of the World: Chemical Constituents, Traditional and Modern Medicinal Uses, by Ivan A. Ross.


Molecule Talk

Mark Drapeau

A review of The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life, by Werner R. Loewenstein.


Boyle Reborn

Mordechai Feingold

A review of The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest, by Lawrence M. Principe.


Nutrient Pursuit

Joanna Lambert

A review of Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, by Stuart A. Altmann.


Fights to Remember

Thomas Isenhour

A review of Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever, by Hal Hellman.


Fantasy Land

Mark Browning

A review of A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science, edited by Noretta Koertge.


Innovation Dissected

John F. Ahearne

A review of Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th-Century America, by David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg.


Not One for Chit-Chat, Naive in Politics, Wheeler Was a Dealer in Big Ideas

Chris Impey

A review of Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics, by John Archibald Wheeler with Kenneth Ford.


Tremors and Eruptions All Around—Especially in California

José A. Rial

A review of The Earth in Turmoil: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Their Impact on Humankind, by Kerry Sieh and Simon LeVay.


Splish Splash: Excerpts from Fresh Water, The Ocean, Our Future and Encyclopedia of Fishes


Neptune's Wrath

John Ward

A review of Salt, Diet and Health: Neptune's Poisoned Chalice, by Graham A. MacGregor and Hugh E. de Wardener.


Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Reasoning with the Infinite and more . . .


Strange Animal

Tim Tokaryk

A review of The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life, by Mark A. S. McMenamin.


Moonlit Monks

Stephen Maran

A review of Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe, by Stephen C. McCluskey.


Play Time

Lee Dugatkin

A review of Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives, edited by Marc Bekoff and John A. Byers.


Uneven Beat

Samuel Petuchowski

A review of The Quantum Beat: The Physical Principles of Atomic Clocks, by F. G. Major.


Those Magnificent Men and Their Macromolecules

Tim Royappa

A review of Inventing Polymer Science: Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry, by Yasu Furukawa.


Simple Minds

Corey Lafferty

A review of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds, by Daniel C. Dennett.


Memory Refreshed

Lynne Baker-Ward

A review of Memory Development Between Two and Twenty, 2nd ed., by Wolfgang Schneider and Michael Pressley.


Illuminating Tales

Thomas Isenhour

A review of To Light Such a Candle: Chapters in the History of Science and Technology, by Keith J. Laidler.


Muddling by Example

Mark Browning

A review of Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication, edited by Timothy Lenoir.




 

Feynman:
An Excerpt from a New Comic Biography

Read an excerpt from the new graphic-novel-style biography of Richard Feynman in an American Scientist slide show


Pizza Lunch Podcasts

About once a month at Sigma Xi headquarters, we liven up the lunch hour with an American Scientist Pizza Lunch talk. In these informal lectures, scientists describe new research to nonscientists. The series is light on jargon but heavy on solid science. Each Pizza Lunch offers an in-depth look at its subject, whether it's bedbugs or the smart grid. Click below to read about and download these talks -- and to subscribe!



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