nature Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“It is a fascinating idea that many of humanity’s greatest achievements have, ultimately, come as responses to times of crisis,” says science writer Mark Buchanan about Harold James' book 'Seven Crashes'. https://t.co/mBbOwsCI3e

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Obituary: James Lovelock, inventor who introduced the Gaia hypothesis to environmental science https://t.co/xDjRDEOjxk

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In his book Pump: A Natural History of the Heart, zoologist Bill Schutt guides us on a journey from the origin of the first contractile cells more than 500 million years ago to the emergence of vertebrates, not long afterwards. https://t.co/GDD1wpCAzu

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Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues. https://t.co/5naDr2hIax

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Book Review: In "The Extended Mind", author Annie Murphy Paul lays out arguments that the body — and the world more generally — is part of being smart. https://go.nature.com/3fReW15

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A new book by Ukrainian nuclear historian Serhii Plokhy places the Chernobyl disaster in a broader, more global history of six nuclear accidents — from explosions at plutonium production plants to meltdowns at nuclear power stations https://t.co/zxQx5mJ54b

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Reviewing Pääbo's 2014 memoir, 'Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes', @nature said "like all true scientists, he never gave up, finding all sorts of ways to achieve his goals, inventing new techniques and new ways of seeing". #NobelPrize https://t.co/hjStKmPdTk