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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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Non­fic­tion
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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Non­fic­tion
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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Non­fic­tion
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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Non­fic­tion
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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Non­fic­tion
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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