Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

I’m used to thinking about climate change from a physics perspective: what technologies can we use to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide a...

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism , by Peter Hotez . I recently listened to an audio recording of Peter Hotez ’s book Vaccines Did Not ...

The Song of the Dodo , by David Quammem . One of my favorite science writers is David Quammen . I’ve discussed several of his books in this ...

I’m a big Alan Alda fan. As a teenager, I would watch him each week as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H . Besides being an actor, Alda also had a...

The Nuclear Energy Option: An Alternative for the 90s . by Bernard Cohen. Today is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of American nu...

One Hot Summer , by Rosemary Ashton . I recently finished Rosemary Ashton ’s book One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great S...