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July 11, 2009

Review of The Evolution of God

July 11, 2009/ Ignazio de Vega

In his review of The Evolution of God, Ignazio de Vega illustrates how Robert Wright investigates the origins of humankind's notions of God.

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July 11, 2009/ Ignazio de Vega/
Monthly Cover, Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology
animals, evolution, Ignazio de Vega, July 2009, religion, science
March 10, 2009

Book Review: The Pluto Files

March 10, 2009/ Steve Donoghue

In 2006 Pluto was officially taken off the list of planets. Neil deGrasse Tyson relates the ex-planet's story.

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March 10, 2009/ Steve Donoghue/
Science & Technology
Book Review, March 2009, Steve Donoghue
August 31, 2008

Wonderful Water World

August 31, 2008/ Ben & Terry Soderquist

All life on Earth is bound to our vast and complex oceans, the subject of The Smithsonian Institute’s new exhibit. Ben Soderquist dives into its companion volume: Ocean: Our Water, Our World.

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August 31, 2008/ Ben & Terry Soderquist/
Monthly Cover, Arts & Life, Science & Technology
nature, science, September 2008
August 31, 2008

Terror Planet

August 31, 2008/ Ben & Terry Soderquist

It has been a part of every human life since mankind was born – but how much does any of us know about lightning? Terry Soderquist reviews John S. Friedman’s Out of the Blue and tries to fill in the gaps on this most scarifying of natural phenomena.

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August 31, 2008/ Ben & Terry Soderquist/
Monthly Cover, Science & Technology
nature, science, September 2008
May 31, 2008

Beautiful Corpses

May 31, 2008/ Lianne Habinek

In The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, George Johnson assays the experiments he sees as most elegantly defining the wonder of the scientific method. But with their reliance on chemicals, voltages, and vivisections, are these experiments really “beautiful?” Lianne Habinek straps on her lab goggles and takes a look.

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May 31, 2008/ Lianne Habinek/
Science & Technology
June 2008, Lianne Habinek, science
May 31, 2008

Heisenberg was a Human – Pass it On!

May 31, 2008/ Becka Podlertz

Becka Podlertz decries the blinkered arrogance of all animal researchers, just as she celebrates the unique and thought-provoking contribution of Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford in their new book, Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins

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May 31, 2008/ Becka Podlertz/
Science & Technology
June 2008, nature
January 31, 2008

Absent Friends: Oh True Apothecary!

January 31, 2008/ Steve Donoghue

In this regular feature, Steve Donoghue celebrates the books of the 17th-Century physician Nicholas Culpeper, whose medicine may be archaic but whose wisdom and literary merit are by no means obsolete.

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January 31, 2008/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History, Science & Technology, Absent Friends
Absent Friends, February 2008, history, science, Steve Donoghue
December 31, 2007

Lab v. Library

December 31, 2007/ Lianne Habinek

Jonah Lehrer’s Proust Was a Neuroscientist attempts to reconcile the ageless turf war between the arts and sciences, but, as Lianne Habinek reports, Lehrer’s propositions may leave both sides feelings shortchanged.

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December 31, 2007/ Lianne Habinek/
Monthly Cover, Science & Technology
January 2008, Lianne Habinek, science
April 05, 2007

A Tiny and Swattable Mind

April 05, 2007/ Steve Donoghue

Steve Donoghue gently debunks the anthropocentric conceits of Pulitzer Prize-winner Douglas Hofstadter’s newest book, I Am a Strange Loop.

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April 05, 2007/ Steve Donoghue/
Science & Technology
April 2007, science, Steve Donoghue
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