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  • The Invention of Eyeglasses
    …Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence calls "inventor of eyeglasses" and adds, "May God forgive his sins., A.D. 1317". Another candidate is Roger Bacon, whom … May God pardon his sins!<br></i>
    3 KB (550 words) - 03:26, 18 November 2009
  • Alley: The Two-Mile Time Machine
    … answers—many are not known yet--but we will frame the questions, and we may gain some clues to our future. [p. 5] … fluctuations are not equally distributed and our current quiescent period may give false security.
    8 KB (1366 words) - 02:55, 23 May 2013
  • Roston: The Carbon Age
    …. Some of these molecules are familiar enough on Earth. For example, there may be enough ethyl alcohol in a dense cloud to fill one hundred shots of vodk…
    10 KB (1538 words) - 04:39, 16 December 2009
  • Murphy: Plan C
    …o change that in a meaningful way. Simply choosing to trust your neighbors may be ill-advised if your neighbors do not have the same altruistic desire to…
    4 KB (719 words) - 23:16, 1 January 2010
  • Henslin: This Is Your Brain On Joy
    …s of the brain and what they control it allows them to see where a problem may lay and how to best help it instead of just throwing medicine at it. They …
    3 KB (457 words) - 22:11, 2 January 2010
  • Kanipe: The Cosmic Connection
    …lobal warming is really a problem that we need to solve given that the sun may solve it for us. Exploding stars and their subsequent gamma ray bursts may have been responsible for the 4 mass extinctions that occurred on earth. W…
    3 KB (467 words) - 03:47, 29 January 2010
  • Marion: Genetic Rounds
    * A note of caution though -- if you are pregnant or have young kids, you may not enjoy the book as much as I did (we don't have any kids) -- you know, … …mportant (if not more important) than the provision of physical care. This may be the biggest epiphany I've experienced during the years I've been in pra…
    6 KB (987 words) - 03:28, 1 April 2010
  • Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    …n one word - FASCINATING! I didn't quite know what to expect, I thought it may be a little dry since it's about science and cells and cells research ... … * I am going to include A LOT OF quotes - Some of the quotes may be SPOILERS - so be aware if you don't want to find out what happened. I a…
    19 KB (3180 words) - 03:36, 2 June 2010
  • Pollan: The Botany of Desire (2)
    …he status of each plant in today's society. To some, Pollan's descriptions may seem to wander down unexplained paths only to eventually loop back to the …
    3 KB (500 words) - 03:37, 12 July 2010
  • Moore: Fluke
    …le singer, Nate starts to question his sanity. Little does he know that he may not actually want to know why the winged whale sings! I can see why this may not be everyone's favorite Moore book but, as a fellow "action nerd" I abs…
    3 KB (475 words) - 21:05, 12 July 2010
  • Barry: The Great Influenza
    …t diseases, like SARS, bird flu, AIDS and ebola, and how the next pandemic may begin and spread. It is scary but important to know about. I recommend t…
    2 KB (358 words) - 01:43, 13 January 2011
  • McCandless: The Visual Miscellaneum
    GE is the biggest bulb, with NBC as its only bud, but all that may change very soon if the [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/12…
    3 KB (474 words) - 05:43, 20 January 2011
  • Taylor: Not A Chimp
    …e in my introductory physical anthropology courses, that while chimpanzees may be our closest genetic relatives, our common ancestor existed 6 million ye…
    4 KB (579 words) - 00:43, 4 February 2011
  • Quammen: Monster of God
    …out human contact with those predators, the author reminds us of things we may have forgotten. What it is like to live in a place where we fear being at…
    1 KB (225 words) - 04:42, 20 October 2011
  • Ryan: Sex at Dawn
    …thering these examples together is to suggest that primitive human society may have been organized more along Bonobo frequent-group-sex lines than into s…
    4 KB (551 words) - 23:26, 23 May 2013

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