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What Makes a Baby: An Inclusive and Imaginative Illustrated Guide to the Modern Family
What Makes a Baby: An Inclusive and Imaginative Illustrated Guide to the Modern Family

A playful illustrated primer for every kind of family and every kind of kid.

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Leonard Shlain on Integrating Wonder and Wisdom at the Intersection of Art and Physics
Leonard Shlain on Integrating Wonder and Wisdom at the Intersection of Art and Physics

“Art and physics, like wave and particle, are an integrated duality … two different but complementary facets of a single description of the world.”

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Astronomer Jill Tarter on the Ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Life and How She Inspired Carl Sagan’s Novel-Turned-Film <em>Contact</em>
Astronomer Jill Tarter on the Ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Life and How She Inspired Carl Sagan’s Novel-Turned-Film Contact

The importance of playing the long game in life, be it extraterrestrial or earthly.

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July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band
July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band

Love and science set to song, from quarks to colliders.

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How the Bees Gave Earth Its Splendid Colors
How the Bees Gave Earth Its Splendid Colors

How a striped, winged, six-legged love machine sparked “the longest marketing campaign in history.”

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Ordering the Heavens: Hevelius’s Revolutionary 17th-Century Star Catalog and the First Moon Map
Ordering the Heavens: Hevelius’s Revolutionary 17th-Century Star Catalog and the First Moon Map

How a visionary manuscript, completed by the first female astronomer of the Western world, survived three fires to become a beacon of scientific dedication.

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Parrots Over Puerto Rico: An Illustrated Children’s Book Celebrating the Spirit of Conservation
Parrots Over Puerto Rico: An Illustrated Children’s Book Celebrating the Spirit of Conservation

The heartening story of one of Earth’s most beautiful bird species, an underdog of geopolitics and evolution.

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The Science of Dust, Picasso’s Favorite Phenomenon
The Science of Dust, Picasso’s Favorite Phenomenon

“With every breath, we inhale a bit of the story of our universe, our planet’s past and future…”

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The Book of Trees: 800 Years of Symbolic Diagrams Visualizing Human Knowledge
The Book of Trees: 800 Years of Symbolic Diagrams Visualizing Human Knowledge

How the humble tree became our most powerful visual metaphor for organizing information and distilling our understanding of the world.

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Beloved British Artist Ralph Steadman Illustrates the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
Beloved British Artist Ralph Steadman Illustrates the Life of Leonardo da Vinci

A visual “autobiography” of the legendary polymath that grants equal dignity to the grit and the glory.

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