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    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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    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.
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    DNA & Tra­di­tion: The Gen­er­tic Link to the Ancient Hebrews
    Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman
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    A Sense of the Mys­te­ri­ous: Sci­ence and the Human Spirit
    Alan Light­man
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    Jew­ish Bio­med­ical Law: Jew­ish Law Asso­ci­a­tion Stud­ies XV
    Daniel B. Sinclair, ed.
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