Name: Fred Bortz
Weblog: www.scienceshelf.com
Articles: 19
First Published: Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Last Published: Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Currently listing articles 19-1:
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Intelligent Design is Not Enough— ...
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New edition of The End of Oil raises red flags— Paul Roberts' "The End of Oil" has come out in paperback with a new afterword that is hardly comforting.
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There's an elephant in the china shop of science— That is the warning sounded by Chris Mooney in his upcoming book The Republican War on Science.
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Thoughts on a rejection: Where will future critical thinkers come from?— ...an organization that once took the lead in promoting innovative and critical thinking can no longer justify the risks....
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Save Our Science Teachers— Real education, i.e. the process of learning to think critically, suffers from the increasing trend toward teaching to the test, and no subject suffers more
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Nature Out of Place by Roy and Jason Van Driesche— New books remind me of older books that still deserve attention, such as this excellent and readable title.
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Motivated by the Spotlight on Intelligent Design: A Review of SUDDEN ORIGINS by Jeffrey Schwartz— Since we are spotlighting the Intelligent Design sideshow in Kansas, I review an important but overlooked book.
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You Don't Have To Be... To...— ...
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Bad News from the Deep Ocean plus a related book review— Objective scientists recognize a drumbeat of warning from a variety of sources. Special interests still engage in wishful thinking.
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Book Review: BEATING BACK THE DEVIL by Maryn McKenna— In this compelling book, readers relive events that made or are still making history and discover the human back stories.
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Book Review: Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain— On April 18, 1955, hours after legendary genius Albert Einstein died, 42-year-old pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey stood over the body with scalpel in hand.
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Book Review: Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact— To continue my series of reviews for The World Year of Physics, here's one that addresses the challenging issue of conscience.
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Book Review: The Hole in the Universe: How Physicists Looked Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything— To continue my personal celebration of the World Year of Physics 2005, here's a review of a personal favorite from a few years ago.
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Book Review: Copies in Seconds: Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine— It all seems so simple today. Put a document in machine, push a few buttons, and out come as many identical copies as you want.
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Book Review: E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation— This year is the centennial of Einstein's "Miracle Year," and this month is the fiftieth anniversary of his death. I am currently compiling a
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New Publisher Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
— G&G Publishing is biting off more than it can chew. George Gutz and Grisslee Gore, describe their list as "off-beat nonfiction for readers with
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If you liked "Aroma" you'll like these, too— ...
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Book Review: Astro Turf: The Secret Life of Rocket Science— Lord turns her attention to "an archetype of masculinity,... the midcentury so-called rocket scientist" in an insightful collection of stories.
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Limericious Punster, Children's Writer, and Science Book Reviewer Joins Blogcritics— The Science Shelf: reviews of books about science and scientists, and books related to science and scientists, sometimes only peripherally.
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