An Arts & Literature Review
This book advocates for common-sense precautions by companies, governments, and individuals so we can enjoy the benefits of technolgoy without falling prey to its vulnerabilities.
Read MoreA fascinating and fun account of the lives of autonomous software systems in the social media universe.
Read MoreBerger goes to back-of-beyond places, observing animals as well as hardy groups of humans.
Read MoreOpen Letters talked with author Ben Goldfarb about this sometimes-maligned fixture of the natural world.
Read MoreBirkhead has done all the traditional biographer's legwork that so few have bothered to do before him.
Read MoreThis books stands out from other accounts of Powell’s expeditions by emphasizing the ecological ramifications of his discoveries.
Read MoreThe author is uniquely qualified to show how misinformation campaigns, social media trolling, and electronic espionage have become tools of modern warfare.
Read MorePlokhy's new history gives us as much about the Chernobyl disaster as we're ever likely to know.
Read MoreOne of the architects the digital world in the 1980s takes aim at social media.
Read MoreThe author argues that the universe is no random accident; rather, it is working purposefully to extract order from chaos.
Read MoreA fascinating examination of the unnerving history behind a common diagnosis.
Read MoreA rich natural history of Hawaiian birds that challenges existing ideas about the concept of belonging.
Read MoreA chronicle of one of the worst U.S. maritime disasters in the last 40 years.
Read MoreA witty, accessible, and beautifully illustrated guide to spiders.
Read MoreBecker's book takes readers through epic discoveries and disagreements in physics.
Read MoreBraided twin narratives of two philosophies – and the lives of the men who espoused them.
Read More“Personal space is the fundamental scaffold of human interaction,” writes Michael Graziano in his new book The Spaces Between Us. Graziano is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Princeton University, is studying specifically in these pages the human startle reflex and more broadly the nature and mechanics of how humans manage what he refers to as the protective 'bubble' that surrounds each person and responds to sudden stimuli before the brain can process and interpret things.
Read MoreChrist Herzfeld's Petite histoire des grands singes appeared originally in 2012 and now has an English-language translation from Yale University Press by Kevin Frey that ably captures both Herzfeld's sweeping viewpoint and his sharply inquisitive tone; the book presents readers with a fast-paced and engaged history of humanity's historical and scientific encounters with gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and chimpanzees and broadens whenever it can to larger issues of ethology and primatology.
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Steve Donoghue
Sam Sacks
Britta Böhler
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Eric Karl Anderson
Olive Fellows
Jack Hanson
Jennifer Helinek
Justin Hickey
Hannah Joyner
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