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You Are Here by Christopher Potter

by Michael Patrick Brady

[18.May.09] :. With a deft sense of narrative and gentle tenor, Potter leads readers through the quantum foam of quarks, gluons, and neutrinos, taming these wild particles for public consumption.

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Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[26.Sep.07] :. Because "the act of reading is not natural" in the sense of "genetically organized," the brain must "rearrange itself" to do so, a process Wolf explains on a neuronal level.

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Thomas Dybdahl: Science

by Dan Raper

[19.Jun.07] :. Dybdahl attempts to win over the US with his gentle, subtle Norwegian pop

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The White Cascade by Gary Krist

by Pat McCoid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.May.07] :. White Cascade details drama of deadly 1910 railroad disaster.

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‘Encyclopedia of Life’ to provide online catalog of Earth’s biodiversity

by Jeremy Manier [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[9.May.07] :. CHICAGO - Although the scientific portrait of life on Earth has grown exquisitely detailed over the last few decades, scientists have done a far poorer job of making their discoveries known and...

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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by No

by Julia Keller [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[2.May.07] :. Two medical narratives shine, two are DOA: Science presented on a human scale.

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Riddled with Life by Marlene Zuk

by Jason B. Jones

[3.Apr.07] :. [Zuk] points out, males in general owe their existence to disease.