Popular Science: From Cosmic Origins to Everyday Discovery | Uncovered
Megan Elias2026-10-06T06:35:24-04:00…
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – An American Slave
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him.
What a simple statement yet is conveys so much of the laments of an ex slave and the cruelty of the slave system.
Douglass was a famous orator who wrote his memoirs as a means of discussing abolition.…
Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Isle Royale in Michigan is one of the most remote and pristine of all the U.S. national parks, and it is the site of the world’s longest-running predator-prey study. Every summer, Jeffrey M. Holden leads groups of citizen scientists on week-long expeditions to search for dead moose.…
The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug’s complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting global hunger, Borlaug, an American agricultural scientist and plant breeder who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, left a legacy that divides opinions even today.…
Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate
Megan Elias2026-10-01T08:59:09-04:00Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and given rise to misinformation that threatens whole ecosystems as well as humanity’s chances of overcoming the climate crisis.…
The Outbreak Atlas
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00The public has taken a new level of interest in outbreak response since 2020, learning epidemiological terms and seeking information about how to stay prepared in a pandemic. Public health professionals are calling on citizen scientists’ participation as outbreaks are increasingly occurring in complex environments, expanding the number of people and types of activities required to control the spread of disease.…
Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00This appealing book begins by mapping the origins of natural history as a discipline, showing how early illustrated treatises reflected a vibrant exchange between artists and naturalists that contributed to the growth of natural science and sparked public fascination with the animal kingdom.…
Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00In Teach for Climate Justice, accomplished educator and social and emotional learning expert Tom Roderick proposes a visionary interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to PreK-12 climate education. He argues that meaningful instruction on this urgent issue of our time must focus on climate justice–the convergence of climate change and social justice–in a way that is emotionally safe, developmentally appropriate, and ultimately empowering.…
Protein: The Making of a Nutritional Superstar
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Protein is everywhere–praised as a muscle builder, a weight-loss miracle, an anti-aging elixir, and the catch-all solution for everything from exercise recovery to global malnutrition. In Protein, Samantha King and Gavin Weedon argue that protein’s rise to nutritional superstardom has less to do with human dietary needs and more to do with how its indeterminate, adhesive qualities are marshalled towards commercial, scientific, and social imperatives.…
Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-Control
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Silver Winner of the 2026 IBPA Book Award for Nature & Environment
Zombies are all around us–insect zombies, that is. In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger explores the eerie yet fascinating phenomenon of real-life zombification in the insect class and among other invertebrates.…