BOOK REVIEWThe Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracyby James Risen & Thomas Risen 2023 About the AuthorsJames Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Throughout his career, Risen’s explosive investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms. Among his best-selling … Continue reading The Last Honest Man
The Magick of Physics
BOOK REVIEWThe Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Lifeby Felix Flicker 2023 About the AuthorFelix Flicker is a lecturer at Cardiff University in its School of Physics and Astronomy. He holds an MPhys in physics from St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and received his PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University … Continue reading The Magick of Physics
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Beyond Measure
BOOK REVIEWBeyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constantsby James Vincent, 2022 About the AuthorJames Vincent is a senior editor for the Verge, the Vox Media site devoted to technology and society. He has also written for the London Review of Books, Financial Times, and Wired. About the Book"Vivid, epic, and … Continue reading Beyond Measure
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The Song of the Cell
BOOK REVIEWThe Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Humanby Siddhartha Mukherjee 2022 About the AuthorSiddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and … Continue reading The Song of the Cell
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The Mind of a Bee
BOOK REVIEWThe Mind of a Beeby Lars Chittka 2022 About the AuthorLars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London. He is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. About the Book“Thanks to Lars Chittka’s captivating account of bees’ thinking and feeling, I now look with fresh eyes at … Continue reading The Mind of a Bee
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What the Dead Know
BOOK REVIEWWhat the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigatorby Barbara Butcher 2023 About the AuthorBarbara Butcher spent 23 years at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner as a death investigator, director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program, and chief of staff. There she investigated more than … Continue reading What the Dead Know
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The Primacy of Doubt
BOOK REVIEWThe Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic Worldby Tim Palmer 2022 About the AuthorTim Palmer, FRS, CBE is a Royal Society Research Professor in the department of physics at the University of Oxford. He pioneered the development of operational ensemble … Continue reading The Primacy of Doubt
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