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2013-06-18 17:20:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this week's report includes Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy; Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor; Birdfinding in British Columbia; and Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution; all of which were recently published in North America and the UK.

2013-06-17 11:00:17 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A witty and engaging children's book that tells the true story of an internationally famous cockatoo who changed the way scientists think about dancing.

2013-06-16 12:47:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Yet more fabulous reading to keep your mind engaged whilst laying around on the beach this summer.

2013-06-14 15:16:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

What do uranium, research laboratories and marine sediments share in common?

2013-06-12 13:05:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

There has been some internet buzz recently about 998001, so Numberphile sheds some light on matters

2013-06-10 16:04:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The American illustrator and author of the classic children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, was born to 85 years ago today to Jewish-Polish parents in New York City

2013-06-09 18:49:14 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this week's report includes Bug Music; The Snowy Owl; The Rutland Water Ospreys; Wildlife of Australia; A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Cayman Islands; and The Life of David Lack; all of which were recently published in North America and the UK.

2013-06-08 10:47:59 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

This week, I tell you about a stack of fabulous new science books

2013-06-07 13:36:09 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

What does toothpaste, the Norse god of thunder and the word "pyrophoric" share in common?

2013-06-03 15:50:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

An engaging Young Adult mystery about a boy's peculiar passion to collect all the elements of the periodic table, his friendship with his sister and cousin, and the adventures that they experience as a result.

2013-06-02 18:34:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this week's report includes The Kingdom of Fungi and Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools; all of which were recently published in North America and the UK.

2013-06-01 20:08:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A smorgasbord of excellent science writing covering a wide variety of topics to keep your mind engaged and educated during the summer months.

2013-05-31 20:03:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Today is the 161st anniversary of the birth of German bacteriologist, Julius Richard Petri. He was the inventor of the Petri dish – one of the most ubiquitous items used by microbiologists, molecular biologists and health-care workers around the world

2013-05-26 12:40:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this week's report includes The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Fourth Edition; Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology; Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest; Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived; and the children's book, Snowball: The Dancing Cockatoo; all of which were recently published in North America and the UK.

2013-05-24 19:30:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This week, I tell you about these books: The World's Rarest Birds by Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash and Robert Still; The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett; The Uses of Pessimism & the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton; A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards; and The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley.

2013-05-24 09:59:19 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Which element is even more dangerous that the most toxic substance known to man?

2013-05-22 14:53:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A delightful partnership of science, poetry, photography and insects, this informative and witty book is an excellent introduction to common British minibeasts, intended especially for young naturalists.

2013-05-21 14:18:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A comic yet scientifically accurate "Where's Wally"-style examination of how the human body factory works.

2013-05-21 09:22:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This kit overcomes one of the main challenges for teaching anatomy by adopting a build-it-yourself approach. The book is concise, well-written and engaging and the kit is accurate and interesting and will provide many hours of enjoyment as children and adults work together to build the human body.

2013-05-20 14:38:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Crammed with gorgeous full-colour photographs and rich graphics, clear and concise writing, and large, easy-to-read font, this is the best chemistry primer I've ever read!

2013-05-20 09:34:50 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

This well-constructed and engaging "flap book" is interesting, accurate and highly interactive -- a wonderful introduction to space for young children.

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.