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7+ hour, 59+ min ago (490+ words) The recent smash hit film Project Hail Mary, was adapted from a sci-fi novel of the same name by Andy Weir." From" Wuthering Heights to People We Meet on Vacation to The Good Girl's Guide to Murder, a spate of…...
Artist captures Jurassic Coast's changing face in ambitious new book
8+ hour, 27+ min ago (283+ words) A sweeping new collection of paintings is set to shine a light on the changing face of the Jurassic Coast as one artist documents decades of erosion, geology and coastal transformation in a major new publication. Landscape artist Jeremy Gardiner…...
Book Review: Within Our Cells, the Miracle of Constant Mutation
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (228+ words) Top: The most common type of human liver cell, called a hepatocyte. Visual: Donna Beer Stolz/University of Pittsburgh/NIH/Flickr BOOK REVIEW " "Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health," by Roxanne Khamsi (Riverhead Books, 304 pages)....
Graphic Novel Energy Meets Fascinating Fish Facts in "Gonzo Ichthyology
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (543+ words) UCSB Scientist Milton Love and Artist Jessica Eggers Team Up for Beautifully Bizarre Book As your eyes ogle at the black-and-white fish drawings and scan the wondrous words about secret species and great gill explorers, your brain may start to…...
Why Are Fish So Gay?
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (711+ words) IT'S HARD TO FIND the moment where I first knew I was writing a book about fish, or, really, writing a book at all. How did fish (or other sea creatures) come to be one of the main organizing principles…...
The Alchemical Word " The Mystery of Thought
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (34+ words) Who Are We Beneath the Stories of the Mind? (Morning Pages, Day 27 of 31) Journaling in the morning " writing out my thoughts. Getting to know myself "...
Award-Winning Science Thriller "KRISPR" by Jennifer Handler Explores Love, Loss, and the Ethical Peril of Gene Editing
1+ week, 2+ day ago (212+ words) KRISPR, the thought-provoking debut novel by Jennifer Handler, has received the Literary Titan Book Award, recognizing its compelling blend of science, suspense, romance, and timely ethical questions surrounding CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. Faced with impossible choices, Aliya must decide how far…...
Richard III's teeth, Hitler's balls and the DNA expert
1+ week, 1+ day ago (974+ words) The cab driver was, Turi King remembers, a little cross. There she was in York, travelling to the university. She had just told her driver she had come from Leicester. In doing so, unwittingly, she had stirred up an ancient…...
The "American Amazon" needs protecting too, and this photography book explores its disappearing biodiversity
1+ week, 1+ day ago (166+ words) While everyone knows about the South American Amazon, which covers a staggering 40% of the continent and crosses the borders of nine nations, few people know the term "American Amazon." With this latest project, Stone furthers his explorations of ecological havens…...
Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was
2+ week, 2+ day ago (301+ words) Fifty years ago, a draft of Richard Dawkins's first book landed on book editor Michael Rodgers's desk " and life was never the same The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins's first book, was published in October 1976 and 50 years on, it is still…...