Isaac Randel, Book Reviewer

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Anna Atkins

by Isaac Randel

Establishing a place in the scientific annals for one of photography’s most underappreciated pioneers, Corey Keller’s intimate biography of Anna Atkins reveals a remarkable, unorthodox Victorian scientist. Atkins, the creator of the... Read More

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The Pale Blue Data Point

by Isaac Randel

Astrobiologist Jon Willis’s "The Pale Blue Data Point" investigates the diverse paths through which scientists have attempted to discover extraterrestrial life. Beginning with the ancient question of the existence of life-forms beyond... Read More

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Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean

by Isaac Randel

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot’s sweeping history of human encounters with the solar system, is an unconventional, moving account of how Earth’s cosmic neighborhood shaped human existence. A mixture of intertwined... Read More

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The Last Extinction

by Isaac Randel

Challenging the popular conception that asteroid impacts caused the extinction of dinosaurs, "The Last Extinction" is Gerta Keller’s reflection on one of the nastiest controversies in the modern history of the earth sciences. Equal... Read More

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Get It Out

by Isaac Randel

In Get It Out, Andréa Becker investigates the consequences of cultural ignorance about one of the least-studied organs of the human body and the multilayered experiences of those who seek to remove it. Because of the uterus’s... Read More

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The Great White Hoax

by Isaac Randel

Philip Kadish’s "The Great White Hoax" is a fresh history of American racial discourse centered on the cynical ways in which fraudulent narratives and outright hoaxes have manipulated public perceptions of race. Told through a series... Read More

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