Doctored (2025) by Charles Piller
Spending days, weeks or even months working on an experiment, aiming for perfect results makes science feel like art. Just as painters obsess over every brushstroke to create a masterpiece,...
It’s Never Too Early to Think About Retirement: A Book Review on Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande
Despite being in my twenties, I had a bartender tell me I looked thirteen years old. To take advantage of the situation, I dressed up as Piglet from Winnie the...
Book Review: The Baby and the Biome: Nurturing Nature’s Connection
In her book "The Baby and the Biome," Meenal Lele, a mother of two children, invites readers on a deeply personal journey as she navigates the complexities of caring for...
Book Review – “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants”, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
In her book Braiding Sweetgrass, author Robin Wall Kimmerer, a decorated environmental biology professor and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation – a federally recognized tribe of the Potawatomi...
The Earth Post-Humanity: A Book Review of Alan Weisman’s “The World Without Us”
Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us is a nonfiction book that explores the question of what Earth would look like if we were to suddenly disappear and leave behind everything...
Pandemic Bestsellers: The Stand by Stephen King
Captain Trips. It sounds like a name for children’s cereal and not a deadly superbug that kills 99% of humanity. When Stephen King first wrote The Stand in 1978, he...
A Book Review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Henrietta Lacks died in agony on October 4th, 1951 due to the tumours that had spread throughout her body. In the end, the only thing she wanted was for her...
Embracing Emotions Across the Animal Kingdom: A Book Review of Frans de Waal’s Mama’s Last Hug
The dying chimp lies curled and motionless, refusing her keepers’ offers of food and water. Not until the old man enters the old ape’s pen does she look up, breaking...
The Martians Within
“They were, I now saw, the most unearthly creatures it is possible to conceive.” Encased in their gargantuan metal tripods, armed with both “Heat-Rays” that instantly incinerate and a mysteriously...
Turning Back The Clock: A Book Review of “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert
In her book “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,” Elizabeth Kolbert, a science writer for The New Yorker, studies the relationship between human beings and the environment. In eloquent prose,...