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2025 Science + Literature Books
The National Book Foundation, together with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced the selected books for the 2025 Science + Literature program....
locusmag.com - 30+ days ago

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The Elusive Promise of the First Person
RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys” shows us the world from its protagonist’s point of view—a perspective that’s ubiquitous in novels, video games, and personal essays, but remarkably rare in film. Does it work? The first person is a narrative style as old as storytelling itself—one that, at its best,...
newyorker.com - 30+ days ago
science
A kid found an unusual rock. It turned out to be a rare ax made by Neanderthals
Ben Witten found an unusual rock on an English beach when he was 6. It turned out to be an exceedingly rare hand ax made by Neanderthals, tens of thousands of years ago. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: A few years ago, a 6-year-old boy was wandering a beach in Southern England when he came across an unusual...
npr.org - 30+ days ago
writing
Stephen King's 10 Favorite Books Of All time
Excluding various holy texts like the Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad Gita, the Book of Mormon, and Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, the best-selling...
slashfilm.com - 30+ days ago
books
A Short Holiday Season Yields Happy Returns for Booksellers
A holiday season that started later than usual gathered steam in December, resulting in a strong finish to 2024 for many independent bookstores....
publishersweekly.com - 30+ days ago
books
These are the Finalists for the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
Every year, Barnes and Noble selects a list of the best books of the year in various categories as well as their overall best book of the year. The...
bookriot.com - 30+ days ago
writing
Literary Locomotives: Nine Books Set on Trains That Show How They Changed the World
Why set a novel on a train? The answer might seem obvious: it’s a narratively and atmospherically rich space, an enclosure in which strangers are...
lithub.com - 18 days ago
architecture
The top 10 architecture and design books of 2024
For those still looking for Christmas gifts, we round up this year's top architecture and design books as part of our review of 2024. Kiosk by David...
dezeen.com - 30+ days ago
learning
DODEA opens school annex on Naval Base Guam for science lab, other learning spaces
Department of Defense Education Activity has opened an annex to its middle school at Naval Base Guam to accommodate the growing student...
stripes.com - 30+ days ago
books
Wanda Gibson wins $ 100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature with picture book Three Dresses
When Wanda Gibson was a girl, living in Far North Queensland in the 50s, she would get three second-hand dresses for Christmas every year. They were...
abc.net.au - 30+ days ago
books
Can this free Baltimore County bookstore get more kids reading?
Moments after entering Eastpoint Mall’s new bookstore, a 10-year-old boy beelines for a Spanish-language copy of “Pedro, First-Grade Hero” by Fran...
thebaltimorebanner.com - 26 days ago
books
Author to Host PB&J-Themed Story time and Craft on Tuesday at Plainfield Public Library
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Children's book author Candace Waller is proud to announce the release of her debut book, Frankie and the Peanut Butter Fiasco, a...
tapinto.net - 13 days ago
books
New books this week: Yoko, Elphaba, Amanda Knox and lost connections
Don't let the crowd of one-word titles fool you: Those looking for their next book will have quite the potpourri to pick from this week. The new releases range from a debut novel to a new installment in a venerable series, from a memoir of wrongful imprisonment to a celebrated novelist's tale of...
npr.org - 11 days ago
books
17 New Books That I Really, Really, Really, Really, Need To Talk About With Someone
These books are screaming, "Read me." Hey, everyone! My name is Morgan, and I'm back with another roundup of books that I can't get out of my head. If there's one thing I like to yap about it's novels — the latest, greatest, and hidden gems. I'm a sucker for a good thriller novel, so don't be...
buzzfeed.com - 21 days ago
science / space
Study suggests rogue interstellar visitor may have shaped our solar system
The research team's simulations indicate a 1 in 100 chance that an interstellar visitor could produce the orbits we see today. New research suggests...
jpost.com - 30+ days ago
nature
Do Jet Contrails Affect the Weather? The Science vs. The Chemtrails Theory
In the vast blue sky, jet contrails often stretch like delicate threads, leaving many of us gazing upwards in wonder. But beyond their fleeting...
weather-fox.com - 13 days ago
business
A Harvard Student Says These Are The Hidden Expenses Of A Degree
When Chloe Bennet enrolled in Harvard Business School’s MBA program, she thought she had budgeted for everything – tuition, textbooks, and living...
find-mba.com - 4 days ago
science
Babies Do Make Memories—So Why Can't We Remember Them as Adults?
Babies as young as one year old can form memories, according to the results of a brain-scanning study published today in Science. The findings suggest...
scientificamerican.com - 11 days ago
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This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended March 23 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the...
dailynews.com - 10 days ago
science / space
‘The Clock in the Sun’ Review: Get to Know Ol’ Sol
The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was unsettling. On the first page of “The Clock in the Sun,” the astrophysicist Pierre Sokolsky admits that he is “neither a specialist in solar physics and astronomy nor a historian of...
wsj.com - 30+ days ago
science
Shipwrecks Lurking in The Ocean Are a Ticking time Bomb. Here's Why.
At the bottom of the oceans and seas lie more than 8,500 shipwrecks from For decades, these wrecks have largely lain out of site and out of mind....
sciencealert.com - 30+ days ago
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The week’s bestselling books, March 16
Hardcover fiction 1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $ 28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf: $ 32) The story of four women and their loves, longings and desires. 3. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead...
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‘Little Black Dress? Nah’: Ayushmann Khurrana’s Poem Is A Love Letter To Comfy Pajamas
Last week, on World Poetry Day, Ayushmann gave an impromptu performance in front of a live audience. Ayushmann Khurrana, known for his versatility...
news18.com - 12 days ago
innovation / wellness / fitness
Science Says Follow the Rule of ‘Nothing to Something’ to Guarantee Remarkable Success, Starting Today
Say you run a service business, and you’re trying to grow sales. You already average making 20 cold calls a day. Adding one more cold call should boost revenue, but only incrementally. To dramatically increase sales, you’ll need to dramatically increase your number of sales interactions. That’s true...
inc.com - 30+ days ago
science
Infant Memory Formation Begins Earlier Than Thought
New research challenges the idea that infants cannot form memories, showing that babies as young as 12 months old can encode experiences. Using fMRI...
neurosciencenews.com - 15 days ago
cool stuff
‘What can be a book?’ is the fascinating question at a Sonoma art exhibit
Fired with extreme heat, or turned into mushroom farms, these are not your traditional reading materials. Some people like to read books; others...
mercurynews.com - 3 days ago