{"id":9209,"date":"2005-11-02T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredbortz.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/9209\/november-news-from-the-science-shelf-website\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T22:41:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:41:31","slug":"november-news-from-the-science-shelf-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/fredbortz\/9209\/november-news-from-the-science-shelf-website\/","title":{"rendered":"November news from The Science Shelf website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Science Shelf newsletter is now available at<br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.scienceshelf.com\/news.htm\">www.scienceshelf.com\/news.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include links to new or soon to come reviews of:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife<\/i> by Mary Roach, a worthy sequel to her<br \/>\nearlier <i>Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers<\/i><br \/>\n\u2022 <i>Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life<\/i><br \/>\nby Peter Ward, which is full of wonderful speculation about life elsewhere in<br \/>\nour solar system and a counterpoint to Ward&#8217;s <i>The Life and Death of Planet<br \/>\nEarth<\/i> (with Donald Brownlee), offering at least a bit of hope of a haven for<br \/>\nEarth life when the Sun heats up enough to make Earth uninhabitable a billion<br \/>\nyears hence.<br \/>\n\u2022 <i>A Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All<br \/>\nThings Southpaw<\/i> by David Wolman reviewed by Science Shelf subscriber Barbara<br \/>\nKrueger, whose son was a pretty good southpaw pitcher for his college baseball<br \/>\nteam. If you&#8217;re a lefty or have one in your family, you&#8217;ll enjoy her review.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes links to reviews of two venerable books with new paperback<br \/>\neditions:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>The Ancestor&#8217;s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution<\/i> by Richard Dawkins,<br \/>\nnow priced so affordably that you can send it as a gift to every member of the<br \/>\nDover, PA, school board; and<br \/>\n\u2022 <i>E=mc<sup>2<\/sup>: A Biography of the World&#8217;s Most Famous Equation<\/i> by David Bodanis, with a new forward by Simon Singh.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also updated the books received page<br \/>\n(<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.scienceshelf.com\/BooksReceived.htm\">www.scienceshelf.com\/BooksReceived.htm<\/a>) with two fascinating books that I hope to review for next January and February, plus three major science books due for publication this month.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p>Scientifically yours,<br \/>\nFred Bortz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Science Shelf newsletter is now available at<br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.scienceshelf.com\/news.htm\">www.scienceshelf.com\/news.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include links to new or soon to come reviews of:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife<\/i> by Mary Roach<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life<\/i><br \/>\nby Peter Ward<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <i>A Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All<br \/>\nThings Southpaw<\/i> by David Wolman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>November news from The Science Shelf website - Fred Bortz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/fredbortz\/9209\/november-news-from-the-science-shelf-website\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"November news from The Science Shelf website\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The latest Science Shelf newsletter is now available at www.scienceshelf.com\/news.htm. 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