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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality ― A Molecular Biologist on Aging and Death

Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery

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The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

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The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials

Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures

Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics: The Story of the Science That Shapes Our World

Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story

Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars — A Physicist on Reaching the Stars

Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

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Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Viral: The Search For the Origin Of COVID-19

When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter

Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World

The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science

Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens

Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies

The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation

A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong

The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature

The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration

Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals

Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea – Evolutionary Theory, Sexual Selection, and the Mystery of Attraction

Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite

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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

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Quotes Tagged “Popular Science”

“ The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other. ”
― Constance Penley

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“ What worries me is the acceptance of the importance of feelings without any effort to understand their complex biological and sociocultural machinery. The best example of this attitude can be found in the attempt to explain bruised feelings or irrational behavior by appealing to surface social causes or the action of neurotransmitters, two explanations that pervade the social discourse as presented in the visual and printed media; and in the attempt to correct personal and social problems with m ...more ”
― Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

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