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
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This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Uprising. By Phil McKenna. Published by Matter.
Reviewed by Virginia Hughes
March 4, 2013
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.
Honor Thy Symbionts. By Jeff Leach.
Guest reviewed by Kevin Bonham
March 1, 2013
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.
The Mind of a Madman: Norway’s Struggle to Understand Anders Breivik. By Richard Orange.
Reviewed by Maia Szalavitz
February 20, 2013