Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is author of books including The Poisoner’s Handbook and has been a columnist for the New York Times and a blogger for Wired.
Books by Deborah Blum
“Deborah Blum’s book reminds me that molecules are powerful witnesses, if only we have the skills to interrogate them, and sometimes they are killers.” Read more...
Michelle Francl, Scientist
“It’s a book about Harry Harlow, a primatologist, a psychologist who worked mostly with rhesus macaques. He became a giant in the field of behavioral science through his work on attachment. Blum gives a great historical perspective on how psychologists thought about interpersonal attachment for most of our history and how Harry Harlow changed that. Harlow introduced the concept of love to the field.” Read more...
The best books on Behavioral Science
Nicholas Epley, Psychologist
Interviews with Deborah Blum
The best books on Science in Society, recommended by Deborah Blum
The Pulitzer prize-winning writer says science is too important to be left for the scientists, and recommends books that show how much it matters in our daily lives
Interviews where books by Deborah Blum were recommended
The best books on Behavioral Science, recommended by Nicholas Epley
What can we draw from behavioral science to help us better understand each other? Nicholas Epley, Professor of Behavioral Science and Faculty Director of the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, recommends the five best books for learning about an interdisciplinary field that draws from psychology, sociology, economics and anthropology.
The best books on Life Before Birth – And Life After It, recommended by Vivette Glover
The professor of perinatal psychobiology at Imperial College, London tells us how our understanding of foetal development and the importance of mother-child bonding has changed in recent decades
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H2O: A Biography of Water
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions
by Andy Brunning
The Best Chemistry Books, recommended by Michelle Francl
The Best Chemistry Books, recommended by Michelle Francl
Chemistry plays a vital role in our understanding of life, the universe and the chances of a better future, says Michelle Francl. She chooses five of the best books on the topic—from a biography of water to a portrait of one of the greatest chemists of all time.
