"The Canon" and Scientific Literacy

"The Canon" by Natalie AngierI'm always behind in my science reading, though that's still no excuse for waiting 'til now to read Natalie Angier's 2007 volume, "The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science," especially since I'm very much a fan of Angier's writing. I've become a bit jaded about books that try to skim across all manner of science for the layman (there have been

New Creatures Found While Others Go Extinct

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There Be Fungus Among Us

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Writer Blurb -- Natalie Angier

Might as well continue the theme of fine female science writers today by linking to this archive of the essays of Natalie Angier that have appeared in the NY Times. Whereas K.C. Cole tends to focus on physics, cosmology, and the physical sciences, Angier most often writes on the life sciences... and like Cole, rarely disappoints! You can almost select anything at random from this archive and be