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    30 Days, 30 Authors: Juli Berwald

    Juli Berwald
    November 29, 2017
    Essay

    Fic­tion and Physics

    Car­ol Zoref
    October 13, 2017
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    Why You Eat What You Eat
    Rachel Herz
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Gene Machine
    Bon­nie Rochman
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Body Builders
    Adam Piore
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    Non­fic­tion
    A Book About Love
    Jonah Lehrer
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    Imbe­ciles: The Supreme Court, Amer­i­can Eugen­ics, and the Ster­il­iza­tion of Car­rie Buck
    Adam Cohen
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Estro­gen Window
    Mache Seibel, MD
    Essay

    Writ­ing ​‘The Man Who Stalked Einstein’

    This week, Bruce J. Hill­man shares the sto­ry behind his first non-med­ical book, The Man Who Stalked Ein­stein: How Nazi Sci­en­tist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of…
    Bruce J. Hillman
    December 28, 2015
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    Jews and Genes: The Genet­ic Future in Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Thought
    Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Dr. Laurie Zoloth, eds.
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    The Man Who Stalked Ein­stein: How Nazi Sci­en­tist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History
    Bruce J. Hillman
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    In the Mind Fields: Explor­ing the New Sci­ence of Neuropsychoanalysis
    Casey Schwartz
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    The Ethics Police?: The Strug­gle to Make Human Research Safe
    Robert L. Klitzman
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    A Cho­sen Call­ing: Jews in Sci­ence in the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Noah J. Efron
    Essay

    A Book and Its Translators

    Arthur Allen is a jour­nal­ist and non-fic­tion writer based in Wash­ing­ton DC. A for­mer for­eign cor­re­spon­dent, he writes about med­i­cine, sci­ence and oth­er…
    Arthur Allen
    July 23, 2014
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    Talk­ing Hands: What Sign Lan­guage Reveals About the Mind
    Margalit Fox
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