• Flowers in an Unexpected Place

    Updated: 2010-02-26 14:57:42
    The winners of the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge—an annual contest sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science—were announced last week. The image above, “Flower Power” from Russell Taylor, Briana K. Whitaker and Briana L. Carstens of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received an honorable mention in [...]

  • Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z

    Updated: 2010-02-18 08:37:52
    Milner R. 2009.  Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z. University of California Press, London. 488 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24376-7 Read the full review here

  • The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, 3rd edition

    Updated: 2010-02-18 08:27:55
    Klein RG. 2009. The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, 3rd edition. The University of Chicago Press. 989 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-43965-5 Read the full review here

  • Darwin Versus Lincoln: Who Won?

    Updated: 2010-02-15 14:30:32
    A little more than a year ago we asked: Who Was More Important? Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin? It seems like an odd question, but since they were both born on the same day—February 12, 1809—we thought we’d give the thought experiment a try. Two Smithsonian editors argued for Lincoln and two others for Darwin. [...]

  • George Gamow and Big Bang Theory

    Updated: 2010-02-07 13:44:41
    A short biography of scientist George Gamow, with focus on his "Big Bang" theory of how the universe was created.

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