by Dan on November 18, 2008

Following up on my recent post about The Nature of Scientific Observation, I left two-thirds of Chalmers' book What is This Thing Called Science untouched, including discussions on Bayes' theorem and the New Experimentalism. I (read on...)

by Dan on October 29, 2008

Currently I'm reading Alan Chalmers' What is this thing called science?, with specific interest in the questions of expertise and the uniqueness of science as a foundation for knowledge. (Coturnix's recent post on Information, (read on...)

by Dan on October 9, 2008

I just came across a very interesting book relating to biotechnology, but sadly it's not due out until next year. By Janine Benyus and Gunter Pauli, Nature's 100 Best: World-Changing Innovations Inspired By Nature, this book (read on...)

by Dan on September 17, 2008

After some of the blog posts that I've written on animal rights' extremists and violence against animal researchers, there's now a review of a most appropriate book on the topic available in Science - Scientists Under (read on...)

by Dan on September 1, 2008

Following on last week's post about the NIH and English as the Language of Science, I have another selection from Arthur Kornberg's book For the Love of Enzymes to highlight. Essentially, Kornberg is describing the critical (read on...)

by Dan on August 26, 2008

Last October, Nobel laureate and biochemist Arthur Kornberg passed away, and I've finally gotten around to reading his book For the Love of Enzymes. While there's a lot in the book to talk about, for this post I'm focusing on (read on...)

by Dan on August 12, 2008

I finally got around to purchasing and reading a copy of Carl Zimmer's Microcosm: E.coli and the New Science of Life, and I have to chastise myself for not reading it sooner. In Microcosm, Zimmer has eloquently condensed a (read on...)

by Dan on July 28, 2008

My all-time favorite biology writer would, without a doubt, be Lewis Thomas. Twenty-odd years before anyone had conceived of blogging, much less blogging about science, Lewis Thomas was publishing a handful of books that were on (read on...)

by Dan on July 8, 2008

Last week's issue of Science has a book review that might appeal to any Bitesize Bio reader: First Adventures in Science. The book in question is Falling for Science, a collection of essays by grad students (current and former) (read on...)

by Dan on June 2, 2008

As a general rule of thumb, it is recommended to be familiar with the history of one's scientific field, and not merely the contemporary trends of thought. That's generally why I liked The Birth of the Cell so much when I read (read on...)