In an article appearing in the “Burning Questions” column in today’s edition of Newsday Erica Marcus cites Pierre Laszlo’s new book Citrus: A History to
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The Times Higher Education Supplement recently ran a positive review of Dario Maestripieri’s new book, Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the
Citrus: A History, the latest from chemist and author Pierre Laszlo, is a fascinating historical study of the culinary and cultural phenomenon of the citrus.
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The media are awash with stories about increasingly close ties between college science departments and multi-million dollar corporations, but is that relationship endangering science? Have
The lead article in the “Science Times” section of today’s New York Times focuses on Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert Seyfarth’s new book Baboon Metaphysics:
Concise and accessible, The Middle Path: Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe lays out the current state of research into climate change and considers what must be done
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