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A new book takes a measured, historical, and ecological approach to fire, arguing that "we ought to embrace and not shun combustion." Read the @SciMagBooks review of Stephen J. Pyne's "The Pyrocene" https://fcld.ly/px9rvjt https://t.co/jLGvv2NLRq

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Encyclopedias, then and now: The book All the Knowledge in the World is an A-Z history that explores the evolving nature of knowledge curation. Read the @SciMagBooks review: https://t.co/T60TDLjzYK https://t.co/TVwjmqchNK

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If computers cannot understand, appreciate, or intend the meaning of their compositions, does that limit their creative potential and the work they might do? The new book Story Machines confronts this question and more. Read the @SciMagBooks Review: https://t.co/O6UEi8hcb0 https://t.co/k9t81XPbgk

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The Battle for Your Brain by @NitaFarahany is “a call to expand human rights to include ‘cognitive liberty,‘ a right articulated … by Wrye Sententia as our ‘autonomy over [our] own brain chemistry.‘” Read the @SciMagBooks review: https://t.co/OSZh4utZ6r #BrainAwarenessWeek https://t.co/Gh6mz4gO20

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Experimental communities in Madagascar influenced the European Enlightenment, anthropologist David Graeber argues in his final posthumously published book. Read the @SciMagBooks review of Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia: https://t.co/dSnQrzKnaD https://t.co/mIsj92JLWh

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From singing whales to dancing honeybees, a new book named The Sounds of Life introduces readers to the emerging field of digital bioacoustics—and how it can aid in understanding and conserving species and ecosystems. https://t.co/LUQ8I8B0gr @SciMagBooks https://t.co/Jky1RP4hvE

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From car safety to road design, innovations in motorsport—“the world’s fastest R&D lab”—has spilled over into other arenas, argues a new book. Read the @SciMagBooks review of Racing Green: https://fcld.ly/ghl0dxh

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In the new book Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea, author @aquariumglass demonstrates how aquarist knowledge is an often overlooked but vital part of #MarineResearch. Check out the @SciMagBooks review: https://t.co/oIrfyDUQRf https://t.co/6B8eGgLZmn

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A new book unpacks the curious tale of the diminutive hominin Homo floresiensis—dubbed the “Hobbit” after the ones made famous by J. R. R. Tolkien. 📕 Read the @SciMagBooks review of Little Species, Big Mystery: https://fcld.ly/mp2n7se https://t.co/imNoM9UBKq

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Do you know the story of aluminum? A new book Soil to Foil "masterfully traces" the expansive history of this abundant metal, argues a new @SciMagBooks review. Read more: https://t.co/tDsVXvhbgL https://t.co/8oh0voVJ7g