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Old 11-28-2011, 01:40 PM   #7
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Anyone have some good popular science recommendations? I've read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and enjoyed it.
Awesome book. A few science purists may not like it because he doesn't get everything "exactly right", but Bill Bryson really makes science interesting and accessible in this book. I will forever be haunted by nightmares of Bill's description of "...bacteria drilling into your teeth".

I would recommend The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It is a human interest story that revolves around science.
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