Perils of baby sex preference
In her book Unnatural Selection, Mara Hvistendahl argues that when a culture prizes baby boys over girls, the result is a dangerously lopsided world
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Luck in Google’s early days
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Stealing moon rocks from NASA
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Life in the tangled Everglades
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Bayes’s rule: a statistical thriller
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What does consciousness feel like?
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The pioneers of Antarctic research
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Inheritance that’s not just in the genes
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What happened to hysteria?
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When flower power met quantum theory
David Kaiser's How the Hippies Saved Physics is a reminder of the unexpected influence a bunch of freewheeling 1970s physicists had on fundamental theories
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The latest chapter in the story of our ancestors
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A strange and wonderful ancient compendium of animals
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Why we always look on the bright side
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The beasties we need near us, for our own sake
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