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Review by David Dobbs, from Neuron Culture
Originally posted on: January 25, 2009 10:45 PM
The book opens so thrillingly -- a plane crash, a last-second Super Bowl victory, and a first chapter that comfortably reconciles Plato and Ovid with Tom Brady and John Madden -- that it spawns a worry: Can…
Review by Chad Orzel, from Uncertain Principles
Originally posted on: January 25, 2009, 4:18 PM
Michael Brooks's 13 Things That Don't Make Sense turned up on a lot of "Best science books of 2008" lists, and the concept of a book about scientific anomalies seemed interesting, so I ordered it from…
Review by Scicurious, from Neurotopia
Originally posted on: January 19, 2009 1:27 AM
It is rare that a non-fiction book, let alone a non-fiction book about science, makes me laugh so hard I have to put the book down until I can get off the floor. In fact, I would say it's only happened once. That…
Review by John Lynch, from Stranger Fruit
Originally posted on: January 16, 2009 12:56 PM
It is always cute when the anti-evolutionists (in all their guises) try to do history; witness here, for example. Veteran observers are not surprised to find them trying to warp history (see here, here, here…
Review by Janet D. Stemwedel, from Adventures in Ethics and Science
Originally posted on: January 16, 2009 8:35 AM
One less fish
by Kim Michelle Toft and Allan Sheather
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing
1998
Within the past week, each of the two Free-Ride offspring picked up this book, read…
Review by Chad Orzel from Uncertain Principles
Originally posted on: Tue, Jan 13, 2009 9:26 AM
Or, Brian Greene Writes a Kid's Book...
This is a very odd book. It's printed on boards, like a book for very small children, but the story is a bit beyond what I would imagine reading to a normal kid of…
Review by Jessica Palmer, on Bioephemera
Originally posted on: January 12, 2009 8:20 PM
I went to a party the other day wearing the shirt above. I'd seen it online, expressed covetousness, and the staffer actually tracked it down and bought it for me (thus scoring major points for A) an early…
Review by John M. Lynch at Stranger Fruit
Originally posted on: January 11, 2009 4:18 PM
I've had the pleasure of working behind the scenes in a number of natural history museums. While a grad student, I had an office in the Natural History Museum in Dublin, spent a good deal of time every year…
This brings us to the end of our ScienceBlogs Book Club discussion of Autism's False Prophets.
Thanks to everyone for their participation.
The next Book Club discussion will start in mid-November, and we'll announce the title as soon as we can.
If you'd like to add your name to the ScienceBlogs…
Hello. Thanks for stopping by the ScienceBlogs Book Club. It's my pleasure to introduce our next title, and the panelists who will be discussing it with you.
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, by Dr. Paul Offit, describes how the belief that vaccines…
A few of you commented recently that you'd received your free copy of Autism's False Prophets, but hadn't gotten an email from us yet. Excuse us! An email went out this morning, to everyone who signed up. If you were expecting one but didn't get it, check your junk-mail filter. It might have gotten…
Hello everyone,
The ScienceBlogs Book Club is back!
From October 1 through October 10, we'll be discussing Autism's False Prophets, by Dr. Paul Offit.
Dr. Offit will be joined on the blog by a panel of experts, and we're inviting all of you to join in by reading the book at home, and contributing…
This post isn't going to appear weekly anymore—instead, we'll be posting news from ScienceBlogs.de to Page 3.14 irregularly, as it breaks—but we're going out with a bang: these four superlative stories that made headlines this week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de.
STOP: This…
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Interviewed here is Nobelist Theodor Hänsch, winner of the 2005 Prize in Physics.
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The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Interviewed here is Nobelist Peter Grünberg, winner of the 2007 Prize in Physics.
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Check out the top stories of the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Homeopathy and Mystical Methods
Germany now has its first professor for homeopathy at the Berlin Charité, and the savants argue about the consequences of such an enthronement. Christian argues:
"In principle I…
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Interviewed here is Nobelist Hartmut Michel, who shared with Johann Deisenhofer the 1988 Prize in Chemistry.
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The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we'll be archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. Here, Nobelist Johann Deisenhofer (Chemistry, 1988) discusses the work that led to his prize: the discovery of the 3-D…
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we are archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. On camera here: Jack Steinberger, winner of the Prize in Physics, 1988.
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Feast your eyes on the top stories of the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
Wrapping Up Lindau
Last Friday the Nobel Laureates Meeting at Lindau finished with a nice trip to the Isle of Mainau and a lovely farewell ceremony. Beatrice shows us many images of that beautiful day…
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings of 2008 are over, but we'll be archiving the video interviews that the ScienceBlogs.de team conducted in Lindau with a variety of laureates. On camera here: Brian D. Josephson, winner of the Prize in Physics, 1973.
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The ScienceBlogs.de team interviews Nobel Prize winner Riccardo Giacconi (Physics, 2002) at the Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Germany, held June 29 through July 4th. In it, Giacconi discusses the discovery of a new class of objects, X-ray stars.
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From June 29th through July 4th, 25 Nobel laureates and over 550 young scientists from all over the world are gathering in Lindau, Germany, at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. This year's meeting is dedicated to physics.
Beatrice Lugger, managing editor of ScienceBlogs.de, is in Lindau and…
The ScienceBlogs.de team caught up with Nobel Prize winner Douglas Osheroff (physics, 1996) in Lindau. In the video, he talks about the discovery superfluidity in helium-3—the work that led to his Nobel honor.
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From June 29th through July 4th, 25 Nobel laureates and over 550 young scientists from all over the world are gathering in Lindau, Germany, at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. This year's meeting is dedicated to physics.
Beatrice Lugger, managing editor of ScienceBlogs.de, is in Lindau and…
From June 29th through July 4th, 25 Nobel laureates and over 550 young scientists from all over the world are gathering in Lindau, Germany, at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. This year's meeting is dedicated to physics.
Beatrice Lugger, managing editor of ScienceBlogs.de, is in Lindau and…
It's the second daily dispatch from the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings by Beatrice Lugger, Managing Editor of ScienceBlogs.de.
Previous entry here.
International Dialogue
They come from all over the world to join this meeting and to communicate with each other. And what happens? They stare at…
From June 29th through July 4th, 25 Nobel laureates and over 550 young scientists from all over the world are gathering in Lindau, Germany, at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. This year's meeting is dedicated to physics.
Beatrice Lugger, managing editor of ScienceBlogs.de, is in Lindau and…
These are the stories that defined the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
European Soccer Games
Not surprisingly, the 2008 European Football Championship is still topic number one in Europe. The ScienceBloggers are always on the lookout for new scientific studies about soccer…
Check out the top stories of the past week at our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de:
First Meeting of German ScienceBloggers
Last Friday the German ScienceBloggers met in Munich in real life. Until the meeting, most of us only knew each other via blog, e-mail or phone. So we enjoyed this…