This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Skulls. By Simon Winchester. Published by Touch Press, 2011.
Reviewed by Brian Switek
April 13, 2012
A New York organization called Thinking Animals has launched a fascinating series of scientific talks about animal cognition. I’m looking forward to being the moderator of this Friday’s event, called “Living in Alien Worlds.”
Four scientists will talk about how the bizarre senses of other animals give them experiences of the world we can barely imagine. We’ll be talking about everything from insect to whales.
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Our Choice. By Al Gore.
Guest reviewed by Dan Fagin
April 9, 2012
Continue reading “Blowing Windmills and Seeing the Future: Al Gore’s Our Choice”
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Fish: A Tap Essay. By Robin Sloan.
Reviewed by David Dobbs
April 6, 2012
Continue reading “A Big Minimalism Win for eBooks: Robin Sloan’s Fish”
One smoggy afternoon in the summer of 2010, I took a walk down Xi Zhi Men Wai Avenue in Bejing. The ten-lane thoroughfare was packed with cars, buses, pedalos, and bicycles. But even here, in China’s hyperurbanized core, there were birds to keep me company. Sparrows shot around the roadside trees. Black and white magpies perched in the treetops, issuing their rattling calls. I was walking down Xi Zhi Men Wai Avenue to pay a visit to a museum, where I could take a close look at the fossilized remains of some ancient cousins to the magpies. I was going to see some feathered dinosaurs.
Continue reading “The One-Ton Turkey: Further Adventures in Slow-Cooked Science”