Topic: Book Review

3D render of a man with strong pain in head

Unlocking the mysteries of pain

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Sewer; Manhole cover

The past, present, and future of poop

Jenny Morber - Undark
Woman Meditating

Demystifying the idea of consciousness

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Tick

How vermin helped shape the modern world

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Brain

Book review: Pinker's "Rationality"

Dan Falk - Undark
Doctor examining scan

Review: illnesses influenced by culture

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
The Green Bank Telescope is seen in Green Bank, West Virginia

The mirage of a town without cellphones

Sarah Scoles - Undark
An Emergency Room RN tends to a patient in a hallway at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital on August 18, 2021 in Houston, Texas.

COVID as seen from the emergency room

Jamie Herndon - Undark
Polar Bear

Reimagining our duty to wild animals

Rachel Nuwer - Undark
Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy

Book review: When scientists break bad

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
MR image of human brain

Mental illness informs brain science

Elizabeth Landau - Undark
Stephen Hawking

A humanizing portrait of Stephen Hawking

Dan Falk - Undark
Hospital room with beds and comfortable medical equipped

One town’s struggle with health care

Jaime R. Herndon - Undark
Cyber Criminal

The next frontier of warfare is online

Mark Wolverton - Undark
Pompeii

The rise and fall of ancient cities

Susan Cosier - Undark
Bison; Buffalo

The evolution of conservation

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
carbon dioxide capture pipes

Disastrous attempts to control nature

John Schwartz - Undark
Catch And Kill; Ronan Farrow

Farrow's "Catch and Kill" high-wire act

Erin Keane
"The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke" by Andrew Lawler

Why the far right loves Roanoke

Matthew Rozsa
Live Work Work Work Die by Corey Pein; Homelessness in San Francisco, California.

Silicon Valley's dark heart

Keith A. Spencer
Gun Love by Jennifer Clement; The Hunger by Alma Katsu

An America that eats its young

Erin Keane
"Sunburn: A Novel" by Laura Lippman

"Sunburn": Reconsidering a femme fatale

Erin Keane
Andy Weir

New must-read sci-fi: Weir's "Artemis"

Matthew Rozsa
Ivanka Trump

What Ivanka doesn't know

Erin Keane

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