With more than 800 photographs, maps, engineering drawings, and other illustrations, Emily Seyl's Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World's First Atomic Test offers an engrossing visual history of what may have been the largest innovation project in ... See more
In The Hidden Lives of Lab Animals: A Vet’s Vision for a More Human Future, animal welfare scholar and lifelong laboratory veterinarian Larry Carbone refers to beagles as “the poster-pups of animal research battles.” They’re small enough to handle. They’r... See more
It’s probably not a spoiler to let readers know that a book about a specific man’s near-death experience includes an episode in which that man nearly dies — and has quite an experience doing so. Sebastian Junger’s NDE is certainly my favorite moment in IN... See more
If a book’s topic were “farms for the production of beagles for some appallingly inhumane biomedical and consumer product research,” you’d shy away from it, right? And you’d do that no matter how important you might think it is for people in general to un... See more
Reading Jonas Enander’s FACING INFINITY: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth, I felt like a light beam crossing the event horizon (boundary) of a black hole. Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape them. T... See more
