Category: Book Review

How can I convince you to read this biography?   As a student in the Department of Immunology, I tend to be overly critical when reading books about Immunology and I often choose instead...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...