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From adventure tales of the Arctic to the ultimate in quantum weirdness, here are the books that have left a lasting impression on some of the world’s top scientists, including Oliver Sacks, Michio Kaku, Jane Goodall, and more.

One hundred and sixty-five eminent thinkers, researchers, and communicators, at the annual request of the edge.org website, answered the following question: "What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?"

This fun science fiction comic book introduces a superhero who is unhappy not being ordinary. Great drawings, a tongue in cheek style and interesting cohorts and villians leads to some interesting times.

In his new book, The Science of Leonardo, Fritjof Capra writes about Leonardo's investigations of the natural world and advances a new interpretation of the Renaissance man’s work. Capra claims that Leonardo applied the empirical method a century before Galileo, and thus better deserves the distinction of ‘father of science.” This is a very short but informative audio interview.

Not science fiction, science. Edge.org is annoyed that the NY Times Notable Books and other lists don't include a single science book, so they came up with their own list. Presented alphabetically, naturally, rather than trying to quantify a subjective ordering.

Here’s one for the science lover’s collection. NASA has released a new book, America in Space, commemorating 50 years of achievement in aeronautics, science and technology, and spaceflight. “The book contains 500 color and black-and-white photographs – many never before published – that were gleaned from NASA archives.”

SocioScifi, and rational for myths that create the mischievous canvas of historical nonsense: creating passage in a way that linear print can't do as easily without sequencial art. I want to lead you on a scavenger hunt through forms of time, stitches of space, and your own reality; to collect a conclusion out of altering endings, and reincarnated/reborn beginnings.

Separate Destinations is a chapbook by well known and prize winning science fiction poets Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel. I found the collection mind expanding and a wonderful way to think about what could be written in science fiction poetry. Read the review and tell me what you think.

With the holidays coming up and the all too time consuming problem of shopping for that hard to find person, I thought this book my be something everyone would like--humor and science fiction short stories. This is the first edition, there's another out.

What the monks of old wouldn't have given for this invention. The Kuka robot is silently writing out the Martin Luther Bible in calligraphy. Ain't science grand?