This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

May 3, 2013

Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants. Text by Eleanor Spicer Rice. Photographs by Alex Wild. Available at The School of Ants. iPad or pdf. Free.

Reviewed by Carl Zimmer

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This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

April 29, 2013

Each week, we add some new titles of science ebooks to the Library. We will review a selection of them. Here are our newest additions:

City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There 

The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of, by Lisa Song and Elizabeth McGowan

The Origin of Darwinism (Essays from The Guardian.)

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

March 28, 2013

Adventures in Synthetic Biology. Story by Drew Endy and Isadora Deese and the MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group. Art by Chuck Wadey. Originally published in 2005. Available for free, PDF

Reviewed by Carl Zimmer

Continue reading “A Comic Book Guide to Rewiring Life”

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

March 18, 2013

Each week, we add some new titles of science ebooks to the Library. We will review a selection of them. Here are our newest additions:

Battle at the End of Eden, Amanda R. Martinez

The Science of Optimism: Why We’re Hard-Wired for Hope, by Tali Sharot

Shooting Star: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Frank Ramsey, by Karl Sabbagh

This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

March 11, 2013

At Download the Universe, we’ve got a hefty inventory of ebooks yet to review. Since we have to fit our volunteer reviewing into our regular lives as writers and scientists, we can only give our full attention to a fraction of those titles. With that in mind, we’re launching a new feature here called, simply, The Library.

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