The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin’s Tragic Quest for the North West Passage
by Andrew Lambert. Yale University Press, 2009

When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations about This and That
by Martin Gardner. Hill and Wang, 2009

Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
by Elizabeth Grossman. Island Press, 2009

The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live
by Colin Tudge. Crown, 2009

FOLKS WE FOLLOW ON TWITTER
Neil deGrasse Tyson, director, Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (@neiltyson)

Richard Wiseman, magician and professor of psychology, University of Hertfordshire in England (@RichardWiseman)

Shawn Carlson, physicist and executive director, Society for Amateur Scientists (@DrShawn1)

Charles Seife, science writer and professor of journalism, New York University (@cgseife)

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