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The year’s best science-book reviews
Start the new year off right by ensuring that the next book you read is an absolute cracker. These are our must-read book reviews of the year.
“It might turn out to have been a very stupid $25 billion for the rich world to have saved,” writes journalist and author John Lanchester on how little it would have cost to vaccinate the world against COVID-19 in his definitive overview of a clutch of pandemic titles. (London Review of Books | 20 min read)
In 1942, facing a hepatitis outbreak in the US military, biomedical researchers intentionally infected more than 1,000 people with viruses that cause the disease, including disabled children and conscientious objectors performing community service. Nature reporter Heidi Ledford reviews a book by historical sociologist Sydney Halpern about an unforgivable experiment. (Nature | 6 min read) Vejm arquivo aqui
Wildfire is a very local problem — what happens to a particular community when the flames reach it? But it’s simultaneously a very global one: what happens when climate change and humans fundamentally transform a fire-prone landscape? It is these many facets and scales that make grappling with the concept of wildfires challenging, as shown in two unforgettable books reviewed by Nature reporter Alexandra Witze. (Nature | 6 min read)
“Soon after the massacre, the V.O.C. became, by some measures, the largest company in human history, worth more than ExxonMobil, Apple, and Amazon combined,” notes philosopher Olufemi Taiwo, writing about the Dutch East India Company’s actions in the Banda Islands in 1621. Taiwo reflects on the long relationship between plunder and biosphere collapse in his review of Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse. (The New Yorker | 8 min read)
In two books, biographer Walter Isaacson and bioethicist Henry Greely grapple with the thorny ethical questions and bitter scientific competition behind genome editing. “Reading them together gives insight into what the CRISPR story means — for knowledge, for society and for research as an endeavour,” writes reviewer Jackie Leach Scully. (Nature | 6 min read) ACESSE ARQUIVO AQUI
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