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Transient and strange notes on the science of life

A collection of personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with a attention to the natural world, Greenfieldboyce grapples with the weighty dualities of life: birth and death, constancy and im...

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Main Author: Greenfieldboyce, Nell (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2024]
Edition:[Hardcover edition].
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Greenfieldboyce, Nell.
Science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science > Philosophy.
Science > Social aspects.
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Summary:A collection of personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly weaving her own experiences of motherhood and marriage with a attention to the natural world, Greenfieldboyce grapples with the weighty dualities of life: birth and death, constancy and impermanence, memory and doubt, love and aging.
Physical Description:x, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214).
ISBN:9780393882346
0393882349
Author Notes:Nell Greenfieldboyce is a science correspondent for National Public Radio. Before joining NPR, she was a science reporter at magazines including U.S. News & World Report and New Scientist , where she received the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists. She lives in Washington, DC.

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