Review: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology edited by Oren Harman and Michael R Dietrich
What's special about scientists who challenge the consensus? This collection of stories about 19 dissenting biologists finds out
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Review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory by George Musser
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Review: The Universe in a Mirror by Robert Zimmerman
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Review: Worlds Before Adam by Martin Rudwick
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Review: The Carbon Age by Eric Roston
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Review: Coming of Age in Second Life by Tom Boellstorff
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Review: Only a Theory by Kenneth R. Miller
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Review: Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from climates past by Chris Turney
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Review: Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women scientists speak out by Emily Monosson
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Review: Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies by Richard McKenzie
We might assume that popcorn is expensive to buy from cinemas because of monopoly pricing, but such obvious explanations are not always right
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Review: The Power Makers by Maury Klein
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Fortune and Glory by Douglas Palmer, Nicholas James and Giles Sparrow
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Jane’s Space Recognition Guide by Peter Bond
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Review: Apocalypse by Amos Nur with Dawn Burgess
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