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July 2025 has been a sweltering month, but we at Scientific American have still squeezed in some fun in the sun and a hot dog or two, all while choosing the best books to read poolside. The season ...
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Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...
August non-fiction releases include they include books on the atomic bomb, a Gilded Age party queen, Elvis, James Baldwin, Martians, and more.
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Peter Guralnick talks Elvis with rock legend J. Geils, there ...