Tom Paulson
A review of Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time, by Peter D. Ward.
Robert Proctor
A review of Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder, by Richard Dawkins.
Alan Packer
A review of The Sacred Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough.
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.
Ben Van Houten
A review of DNA Damage and Repair, edited by Jac Nickoloff and Merl Hoekstra.
Tim Tokaryk
A review of Dinosaur Impressions: Postcards from a Paleontologist, by Philippe Taquet.
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.
Mark Drapeau
A review of The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life, by Werner R. Loewenstein.
Mordechai Feingold
A review of The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest, by Lawrence M. Principe.
Joanna Lambert
A review of Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, by Stuart A. Altmann.
Thomas Isenhour
A review of Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever, by Hal Hellman.
Mark Browning
A review of A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science, edited by Noretta Koertge.
John F. Ahearne
A review of Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th-Century America, by David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg.
Chris Impey
A review of Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics, by John Archibald Wheeler with Kenneth Ford.
José A. Rial
A review of The Earth in Turmoil: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Their Impact on Humankind, by Kerry Sieh and Simon LeVay.
John Ward
A review of Salt, Diet and Health: Neptune's Poisoned Chalice, by Graham A. MacGregor and Hugh E. de Wardener.
Tim Tokaryk
A review of The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life, by Mark A. S. McMenamin.
Stephen Maran
A review of Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe, by Stephen C. McCluskey.
Lee Dugatkin
A review of Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives, edited by Marc Bekoff and John A. Byers.
Samuel Petuchowski
A review of The Quantum Beat: The Physical Principles of Atomic Clocks, by F. G. Major.
Tim Royappa
A review of Inventing Polymer Science: Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence of Macromolecular Chemistry, by Yasu Furukawa.
Corey Lafferty
A review of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds, by Daniel C. Dennett.
Lynne Baker-Ward
A review of Memory Development Between Two and Twenty, 2nd ed., by Wolfgang Schneider and Michael Pressley.
Thomas Isenhour
A review of To Light Such a Candle: Chapters in the History of Science and Technology, by Keith J. Laidler.
Mark Browning
A review of Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication, edited by Timothy Lenoir.
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