Category: Download the Universe
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
March 5, 2013
Reviewed by Sean Carroll
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
March 4, 2013
Reviewed by Virginia Hughes
Continue reading “Word Rising: In Long-Form Journalism, How Long Is Too Long?”
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
March 1, 2013
Guest reviewed by Kevin Bonham
Continue reading “A Few Pounds of Microbes, Only Ounces of Insight”
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
February 26, 2013
By Carl Zimmer
It’s now been a year since we started exploring science ebooks here at Download the Universe. By the time we got the site off the ground, people had already started producing some digital gems. The first work reviewed at Download the Universe, The Elements, brilliantly dismantled the ingredients of a book and rearranged them to take advantage of the touch-sensitive iPad. In 2011 science writer Laurie Garrett had taken the leap to Kindle in order to write I Heard the Sirens Scream, a harrowing account of how the United States responded to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks.
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
February 20, 2013
Reviewed by Maia Szalavitz