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Cookbooks That Teach a Cuisine Through More Than the Famous Dishes
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Design Books That Change How You Notice Everyday Objects
Design Books That Change How You Notice Everyday Objects
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The shape of a door handle tells your hand what to do, and the spacing on a sign changes how easily you can read it. These books give you ways to notice decisions like those in things you already...
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Graphic Nonfiction That Explains Without Flattening the Subject
Graphic Nonfiction That Explains Without Flattening the Subject
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A strip of photographs can tell you what the camera saw. A drawing can take you into the moment that came after. These works of graphic nonfiction use page layouts, color, and changes in point of...
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Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
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Finished papers make discovery look tidy. Notebooks show the guesses, dead ends, crossings-out and conversations behind it. This list gathers scientists whose surviving notebooks, diaries and...
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Researchers Who Made Long-Term Observation Their Life's Work
Researchers Who Made Long-Term Observation Their Life's Work
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Some discoveries only appear after decades of patient watching: a cycle in sunspots, a rising line of carbon dioxide, a chimpanzee family's changing fortunes. This list follows researchers who...
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People Who Changed How Science Records and Shares Knowledge
People Who Changed How Science Records and Shares Knowledge
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Discoveries only matter once other people can find, check and build on them. This list follows the people behind the systems that make that possible: the first scientific journal, a naming scheme...
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Naturalists Whose Field Notes Changed Scientific Understanding
Naturalists Whose Field Notes Changed Scientific Understanding
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A record of which island a bird came from can change the question a scientist asks. A notebook of first blooms can help answer a question that hadn’t been asked when it was written. These...
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Researchers Who Built Essential Scientific Tools
Researchers Who Built Essential Scientific Tools
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Many of science's biggest leaps came from someone building a better way to look, measure or copy, and then everyone else using it. This list follows the people behind instruments and methods that...
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People Who Changed How We Measure the World
People Who Changed How We Measure the World
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A measurement becomes useful when other people can compare it, repeat it or understand its uncertainty. These are my choices across observation, practical standards and statistics: people who...
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Scientists Who Were Exceptional Public Communicators
Scientists Who Were Exceptional Public Communicators
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Explaining science well is a skill of its own, and it is rarer among working researchers than it should be. This list picks scientists with real research careers who also explained their fields...
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Famous Scientists Photographed at Work in Their Labs
Famous Scientists Photographed at Work in Their Labs
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Discoveries tend to be remembered as names and dates, but they happened in rooms full of glassware, wiring and stacks of notes. This gallery collects archive photographs of famous scientists at...
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Books About Science as a Human History
Books About Science as a Human History
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A glass plate full of stars, a tape measure in a lab, and a packet of seeds sent across the Atlantic all have a place in the history of science. These books follow people collecting, testing, and...
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Citizen Science Projects for Animal Lovers
Citizen Science Projects for Animal Lovers
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You do not need a biology degree to help real wildlife research. Every project here takes complete beginners, asks for anything from 15 minutes to a single day a year, and has records that...
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Women Scientists Whose Contributions Were Recognised Late
Women Scientists Whose Contributions Were Recognised Late
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The history of science is full of women whose discoveries were credited to others, ignored or only properly acknowledged decades later. This list, in rough order of when the work was done, gives...
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Scientists Whose Careers Crossed Disciplinary Boundaries
Scientists Whose Careers Crossed Disciplinary Boundaries
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Some of the biggest advances in science came from people who walked into a field they were not trained in, carrying tools and questions from another: physicists who turned to genes, a...
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