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Popular Science Reading ChallengediscipuladcJune 27 2011, 13:04:23 UTC
1) Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 2) Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer 3) The Coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4) The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley 5) Hens' Teeth and Horses' Toes by Stephen Jay Gould 6) Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner by Fredrick Zugibe and David L. Carroll 7) The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss 8) The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean 9) The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers 10) The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes by Colin Evans 11) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 12) Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife by Richard Conniff 13) Medical Mysteries: From the Bizarre to the Deadly . . . The Cases That Have Baffled Doctors by Ann Reynolds 14) Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould 15) Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes
So, I read 15/12, not counting history of medicine/science. Even though I was aiming for "magnesium", I hit "phosphorus"!
2) Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
3) The Coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4) The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley
5) Hens' Teeth and Horses' Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
6) Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner by Fredrick Zugibe and David L. Carroll
7) The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss
8) The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
9) The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers
10) The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes by Colin Evans
11) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
12) Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife by Richard Conniff
13) Medical Mysteries: From the Bizarre to the Deadly . . . The Cases That Have Baffled Doctors by Ann Reynolds
14) Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
15) Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes
So, I read 15/12, not counting history of medicine/science. Even though I was aiming for "magnesium", I hit "phosphorus"!
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