Books on Science: Fiddling With a Two-Year Gap in the Busy Life of Copernicus
Dava Sobel has long taken a quirky approach to science history. In “Galileo’s Daughter” (1999), for instance, she focused not on the standard biographical material but on the scientist’s love for his illegitimate daughter, consigned [...]
Evolution: Education and Outreach for free
Evolution: Education and Outreach — the new journal aspiring to promote accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — will be freely available through December 31, 2011, thanks to the generosity [...]
RNCSE 31:5 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce the fifth issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format. The issue — volume 31, number 5 — features Lorence G. Collins and Barbara J. Collins’s article “Pleistocene [...]
Book Review : Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa with Mim Eichler Rivas
Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
By Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa with Mim Eichler Rivas
An autobiography charts one man’s voyage from migrant worker to brain surgeon.
Univ. of California Press, 2011, 317 [...]
Book Review : Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground by Tom Koch
This unconventional history charts the rise of epidemiology by examining how maps have been used to follow the spread of disease.
Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011, 330 p., $45
Book Review : The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives by Diana Reiss
A dolphin researcher describes studies of the animals’ intelligence and makes a case for their protection.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 276 p., $27
A preview of How and Why Species Multiply
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant’s How and Why Species Multiply (Princeton University Press, 2007, reissued in paperback in 2011). The preview consists of chapter 10 — “Reconstructing [...]
D.M. Bennett : The Man Who Went to Jail for Being a Freethinker
DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett is not a name familiar to many, and given how much he fought for freethought, free speech, and a free press, that is unfortunate. Called the “American Voltaire” by friends and the “Devil’s [...]
Did you know this about the Last Post
Thanks to Rana for the article!
I did not know… about “The Last Post”
If you have ever been to a military funeral in which The Last Post was played; this will bring a new meaning to it. Here is something everyone should know. [...]
