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The truth behind it all - it is definately stranger than any oddity that might fall into your lap. Her tone is humorous, ironic, at times conspiratory, but always enthusiastic and never condescending. The author does a wondeful job combining biology a... Read More
The coolest thing about this show seems to be the questions it poses about nature and science as we know it. Simon is a molecular biologist, and her discussion tend toward cell biology, but are written with such clarity that even those largely ignoran... Read More
As science advisor for the x files, dr. Simon dazzles the reader with this treasure drove of a book. Most of the things that happen on a macro scale in the x files happens on a micro scale in real life. If you are an x files fan, or even if you are no... Read More
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I like how quotations from the script are interspersed with the science discussion
Not being a fan of the fantastically popular fox series i picked up this book as a curiosity and was pleasantly surprised by th... Read More
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What i found instead was a manual on the scientific exploration of the smallest things
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The author does a wondeful job combining biology and humour to explain to the lay person that not all things are paranormal and... Read More
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- This product had a total of 35 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 22 2022.
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I havent read anything as fun on scientific phenomena as this book for a long time not since hawkings brief history of time
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A onecelled creature known as dictyostelium discoideum can excrete a chemical to summon its relatives which then arrange themselves into a multicellular sluglike creature looking for all the world like those disgusting stars of many episodes and of course the x files movie
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Just check out the viral dna sequence that flashes past the next time you watch herrenvolk
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Simon is a molecular biologist and her discussion tend toward cell biology but are written with such clarity that even those largely ignorant of life sciences like me wont be put off
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Simon presents countless reallife mysteries from the recent research of biologists and geneticists
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And being a molecular biology student i always get a kick out of shooting down the supposed theories that the shows characters spout out
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The truth behind it all it is definately stranger than any oddity that might fall into your lap
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