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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein - Bold Type Books
Format: Book
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In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter -- all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom... |
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
Jared Farmer - Basic Books
Format: Book
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Theepicstory of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees.Butas historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, whennaturalists embarked ona questtolocate and precisely... |
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake - Random House
Format: Book
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A mind-bending journey into the hidden world of fungi that will change your understanding of life on earth "A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book . . . I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world--the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom." - Robert... |
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Mark Miodownik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: the New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters show us the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff."We all know that without water we couldn't... |
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The Mind of a Bee
LARS CHITTKA - PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRES
Format: Book
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A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive mind -- the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including... |
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Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life
Brian Clegg - Icon Books
Format: Book
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Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each... |
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Matt Ridley - Harper
Format: Book
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A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question to answer have been dashed. Nearly two years into the pandemic,... |
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The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
P J E Peebles - Princeton University Press
Format: Book
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From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical model of the ether to electric and magnetic... |
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