April 13, 2018

REVIEW: Does It Fart? by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / health / non-fiction / science6 Comments

Dogs do it. Millipedes do it. Dinosaurs did it. You do it. I do it. Octopuses don’t (and nor do octopi). Spiders might do it: more research is needed. Birds don’t do it, but they could if they wanted to. Herrings do it to communicate with each other. In 2017 ... more >

November 15, 2017

REVIEW x 2: Artemis by Andy Weir

JanineB- Reviews / C+ Reviewscrime thriller / First-Person / murder / mystery / science / Science Fiction / smuggling / space travel4 Comments

Dear Mr. Weir, Almost three years ago, I read and reviewed The Martian. While I didn’t love the book, I appreciated much about it. When I heard that you had a new book, a murder mystery set on the moon and titled Artemis, I requested an ARC so that I ... more >

JaynePublishing NewsLegos / NASA / science / space flight / women3 Comments

Women of NASA Lego set – I saw this news story the other day and got all excited. The $25 kit will go on sale November 1st and features four figurines of “pioneering women of the space agency: the astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, the astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, ... more >

July 18, 2017

REVIEW: Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistory / non-fiction / science2 Comments

The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar’s Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around ... more >

March 9, 2017

REVIEW: Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, ... more >

March 3, 2017

Friday News: NYT changes book coverage, Amazon Web Services outage, strong girls, and astronomer Maria Cunitz

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon Web Services / astronomy / History / New York Times Book Review / photography / science4 Comments

Changes In ‘New York Times’ Books Coverage, Explained – Although I’m trying not to see this as the beginning of the end of book reviews, it’s a hard sell. Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review, is trying to sell the “deprioritization” of book reviews as a democratizing ... more >