This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Minds of Modern Mathematics. Published by IBM/Eames Office.
Reviewed by Jennifer Ouellette
March 19, 2013
Author: admin
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Sound Uncovered. By The Exploratorium.
Reviewed by Maggie Koerth-Baker
March 18, 2013
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Electric Shock: How Electricity Could Be The Key To Human Regeneration. By Cynthia Graber.
Reviewed by Tom Levenson
March 8, 2013
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Chasing the Higgs Boson. By Dennis Overbye. Published by The New York Times, 2013.
Reviewed by Sean Carroll
March 5, 2013
Discover, March 3, 2013
David Reich, a geneticist at the Harvard Medical School, has redrawn our species’ family tree. And today, in his office overlooking Avenue Louis Pasteur in Boston, he picks up a blue marker, walks up to a blank white wall, and shows the result to me. He starts with a pair of lines — one for humans and one for Neanderthals — that split off from a common ancestor no more than 700,000 years ago. The human branch divides into lineages of Africans, Asians, and Europeans, and then into twigs for smaller groups like the people of New Guinea or the residents of the remote Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. Reich also creates a branch off the Neanderthal line for the Denisovans, a paleolithic lineage geneticists discovered only a few years ago.