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2013-05-19 11:31:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this week's report includes The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians; Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America; and a Photoalbum of the Birds of Uzbekistan; all of which were recently published in North America and the UK.

2013-05-17 22:17:20 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Finally, what I know you've all been waiting for: the six shortlisted young people's science books have been selected and are now in the mail to hundreds of children across the UK who will select the winner of the 2013 Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize!

2013-05-17 22:13:53 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

What do watch hands, quackery and cancer share in common?

2013-05-15 15:49:44 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

The newly-sequenced scarlet macaw genome will provide many important insights into avian and human biology, behaviours and genetics and will contribute to parrot conservation.

2013-05-12 20:01:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this week's report includes Penguins: Natural History and Conservation; A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts; The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time; and Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of Indricotheres; all of which were recently published in North America and the UK

2013-05-11 20:47:04 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-05-10 20:33:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This week, I tell you about these books: Jane Austen, Game Theorist; A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt - And Why They Shouldn't; The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics; The Psychopath Test; and Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts.

2013-05-10 12:37:18 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

What do moldavium, the second world war and Easter egg hunts share in common?

2013-05-08 17:49:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A delightful book for baby birders that is crammed with poetry, information and gorgeous paintings of birds! Oh yeah, it teaches the letters of the English alphabet, too.

2013-05-08 02:25:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2013/may/08/soldiers-faces-predict-aggression-rank-children

2013-05-08 02:08:35 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-04-02 21:46:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Today's Google Doodle honours one of the world's first scientific illustrators (and entomologists!), Maria Sibylla Merian

2013-04-02 15:54:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If your idea of observing "spring" includes binoculars, then you will love this fabulous new innovation [video] 

2013-03-25 07:48:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What do rocks and lung cancer share in common?

2013-03-22 07:02:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://www.scilogs.com/maniraptora/setting-the-record-a-little-straighter-regarding-trade-in-african-grey-parrots/
In this piece, I am fact-checking and rebutting "facts" presented in an article written by a conservation biologist and recently published by National Geographic.

2013-03-13 18:23:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Read about my visit to the heart of the German wine country! [photoessay] http://www.scilogs.com/maniraptora/a-glimpse-of-scilogs13-in-deidesheim-germany/

2013-03-07 22:43:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How The Royal Society is helping me indulge my inner child and my passion for books ;) :) ;)

2013-03-03 22:49:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes Mammals of Africa: Volumes I-VI; Geckos: The Animal Answer Guide; Buller's Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans & Oregon Geology: Sixth Edition, all of which have been recently published in North America and the UK

2013-02-25 21:24:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes The Magnificent Chicken: Portraits of the Fairest Fowl; Texas Mushrooms: A Field Guide & Darwin: A Graphic Biography, all of which have been recently published in North America and the UK

2013-02-22 23:10:01 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

What do pearlescent lipsticks, fishing weights and Pepto-Bismol share in common?

2013-02-21 20:11:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

We should celebrate the scientific breakthroughs that benefit the many, not the few

2013-02-19 21:41:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes Grassfinches In Australia; Freeway Birding: San Francisco to Seattle; Common Spiders of North America; Starfish: Biology and Ecology of the Asteroidea; and Amphibians & Reptiles of Indiana, all of which have been recently published in North America and the UK

2013-02-17 21:44:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What do California condors, Beethoven and crime rates share in common?

2013-02-12 18:37:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

do you REALLY know what's on your plate and who stuck their fingers into it before it got there? 

2013-02-03 19:04:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes; A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago; The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern and Western Regions; Green Birding: How to See More Birds and Protect the Environment at the Same Time; Birdbook 2: Freshwater Habitats; Wired For Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind; A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent; and Weird Life: The Search For Life That Is Very, Very Different From Our Own -- all newly published in North America and the UK

2013-01-27 20:47:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes; Texas Waterfowl; Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Revealing the Unseen Lives of Plants and Animals & Audubon's Birds of America: The National Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio edition, all newly published in North America and the UK

2013-01-25 19:58:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What do felt hats, tuna and St Isaac's cathedral have in common?

2013-01-20 20:42:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes;Birds and Habitat: Relationships in Changing Landscapes & The Mammal Guide of Southern Africa, both newly published in North America and the UK

2013-01-19 21:50:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This week, I tell you about these books: The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World; Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering; The Kingdom of Rarities; A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia; and The Unfeathered Bird.

2013-01-18 18:57:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

What do sunrises, meteorites, and the Philosopher's Stone have in common?

2013-01-15 20:20:44 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 1 +1s)

Meet the peacock of the spider world and watch his lovely courtship dance!

2013-01-12 16:33:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What do automobiles, jewelry and the US National Debt crisis have in common?

2013-01-12 15:33:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hitler twitches

2013-01-06 20:07:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes; Gliding Mammals of the World, Birds of Prey of Australia and Cold Cash, Cool Climate, all newly published in North America and the UK

2013-01-04 19:04:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-01-04 17:02:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What do the international kilogram prototype, black pigments and the KT extinction have in common? My favourite element, of course!

2012-12-31 18:02:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes; Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand's Legendary Bird and Birds in a Cage: The Unlikely Beginning of British Wildlife Conservation, all newly published in North America and the UK

2012-12-30 15:56:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes; The Sunflower Family in the Upper Midwest, Butterflies of Indiana, Dragonflies of Indiana, Orchids of Indiana and Sedges of Indiana and the Adjacent States, all newly published in North America and the UK

2012-12-19 17:27:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Shame on you, Guardian, for sharing fraudulent video with an unsuspecting public, thereby promoting misunderstanding of birds and fear of nature

2012-12-16 16:58:52 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes faboo books; The Dodo and the Solitaire & Urban Bird Ecology and Conservation -- both newly published in North America and the UK

2012-12-10 20:17:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

What did Alex the grey parrot think of the many humans who shared his life? This video shares never-before-seen footage of Alex and tells his story -- in his own words

2012-12-10 17:49:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What does £197 billion ($315 billion) in gold bullion look like? Chemistry Professor Martyn Poliakoff and videojournalist Brady Haran visitied a gold bullion-filled vault at the Bank of England and give us all a look

2012-12-10 09:53:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes; Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History; A Visitor's Guide to South Georgia; and Owls, all newly published in North America and the UK

2012-12-10 08:17:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What do pen tips, electron microscopy and dinosaurs have in common?

2012-12-07 15:09:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-12-02 21:26:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes; Tricholomas of North America: A Mushroom Field Guide; David Douglas: A Naturalist at Work; Troubled Waters -- Trailing the Albatross: An Artist's Journey; and American Birding Sketchbook, all newly published in North America and the UK

2012-12-01 17:00:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-11-30 16:27:28 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

What do aircraft engines, a particular Russian volcano and the river Rhine have in common?

2012-11-28 16:33:17 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

This engaging book describes several theories of multiverses (because obviously one isn't enough) that physicists have developed over the years, including a good explanation of string theory and why it's relevant, and a defence of physicists doing too much theoretical work

2012-11-27 18:16:01 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

American journalist James Gleick wins the coveted award for the best English-language science book for a general adult audience!