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    Cover of The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
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    The Fan­tas­tic Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Dr. Wei­gl: How Two Brave Sci­en­tists Bat­tled Typhus and Sab­o­taged the Nazis
    Arthur Allen
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    Attached: The New Sci­ence of Adult Attach­ment and How It Can Help You Find-and Keep-Love
    Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
    Essay

    Obses­sion in Blue

    Baruch and Judy Ster­man​’s The Rarest Blue: The Remark­able Sto­ry of an Ancient Col­or Lost to His­to­ry and Redis­cov­ered is now avail­able. They will be blog­ging here all…
    Baruch Ster­man, Judy Ster­man
    February 26, 2013
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    In Search of Mem­o­ry: The Emer­gence of a New Sci­ence of Mind
    Eric R. Kandel
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    Sci­ence in Medieval Jew­ish Cultures
    Gad Freudenthal, ed.
    Cover of DNA & Tradition: The Genertic Link to the Ancient Hebrews
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    DNA & Tra­di­tion: The Gen­er­tic Link to the Ancient Hebrews
    Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman
    Cover of A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit
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    A Sense of the Mys­te­ri­ous: Sci­ence and the Human Spirit
    Alan Light­man
    Cover of Judaism, Physics and God: Searching for Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World
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    Judaism, Physics and God: Search­ing for Metaphors in a Post-Ein­stein World
    David W. Nelson
    Non­fic­tion
    Jew­ish Bio­med­ical Law: Jew­ish Law Asso­ci­a­tion Stud­ies XV
    Daniel B. Sinclair, ed.
    Cover of The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science, Including Original Papers
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    The Dis­cov­er­ies: Great Break­throughs in 20th Cen­tu­ry Sci­ence, Includ­ing Orig­i­nal Papers
    Alan Light­man
    Essay

    Arthur Mourant: It’s All In the Blood

    Ear­li­er this week, Har­ry Ostr­er wrote about a series of sci­en­tists who con­tributed to our con­tem­po­rary under­stand­ing of Jew­ish­ness. He will be blog­ging here…
    Har­ry Ostrer
    June 29, 2012
    Essay

    Chaim She­ba: Iden­ti­fy­ing Founder Effects for Jew­ish Genet­ic Diseases

    In Lega­cy: A Genet­ic His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Peo­ple, Har­ry Ostr­er wrote about a series of sci­en­tists who con­tributed to our con­tem­po­rary under­stand­ing of…
    Har­ry Ostrer
    June 27, 2012
    Essay

    Joseph Jacobs: Fight­ing Anti-Semi­tism, Genetically

    In Lega­cy: A Genet­ic His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Peo­ple, Har­ry Ostr­er wrote about a series of sci­en­tists who con­tributed to our con­tem­po­rary under­stand­ing of…
    Har­ry Ostrer
    June 25, 2012
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    The Great Part­ner­ship: Sci­ence, Reli­gion, and the Search For Meaning
    Jonathan Sacks
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    What a Plant Knows
    Daniel Chamovitz
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    Lega­cy: A Genet­ic His­to­ry of the Jew­ish People
    Har­ry Ostrer
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