I Know Who You Are

BOOK REVIEWI Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Foreverby Barbara Rae-Venter 2023 About the AuthorBarbaraRae-Venter is an investigative genetic genealogist, biologist, and retired patent attorney best known for her work helping the FBI and other investigators identify Joseph James DeAngelo as the Golden … Continue reading I Know Who You Are

The Phantom God

BOOK REVIEWThe Phantom God: What Neuroscience Reveals about the Compulsion to Believe by John C. Wathey 2022 About the AuthorJohn C. Wathey, Ph.D., is a computational biologist whose research interests include evolutionary algorithms, protein folding, and the biology of nervous systems. Previously, he was a senior applications scientist at Biosym Technologies (now named Biovia), a … Continue reading The Phantom God

The Sounds of Life

BOOK REVIEWThe Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants by Karen Bakker 2022 About the AuthorKaren Bakker is a Canadian author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for her work on digital transformation, environmental governance, and sustainability. A Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford, Bakker is … Continue reading The Sounds of Life

After

BOOK REVIEWAfter by Bruce Greyson 2021 About the AuthorDr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He served on the medical school faculty at the Universities of Michigan, Connecticut, and Virginia. He was a co-founder and President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, … Continue reading After

A History of Scientific Journals

BOOK REVIEWA History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 by Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham etc 2022 About the AuthorsAileen Fyfe is professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews. Noah Moxham was a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Kent’s Centre for the History of Sciences. Julie McDougall-Waters was a … Continue reading A History of Scientific Journals

Toxic Psychiatry

BOOK REVIEWToxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry"by Peter R. Breggin 2015 About the AuthorPeter R. Breggin, M.D., is a psychiatrist and expert in clinical psychopharmacology. A former teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School and full-time consultant at the National Institute of Mental … Continue reading Toxic Psychiatry

Unsavory Truth

BOOK REVIEWUnsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eatby Marion Nestle 2018 About the AuthorMarion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, emerita, at New York University, and Visiting Professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell. She has a PhD in molecular biology and an MPH in … Continue reading Unsavory Truth