Science – WPL Readers Advisory

May 29

What It’s Like To Be a Bird: From Flying To Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley

During the sheltering-in-place period of late, I’ve had more time to notice birds and like the book title, I have wondered what birds are doing and why. With simple and cleanly rendered paintings, sketches and diagrams (all by the author), Read more

Apr 28

The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum

The Poison Squad tells the story of Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, head chemist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 30 years beginning in the late 1880s, who was instrumental in the passing of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Read more

Apr 21

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon takes readers on a strange and wonderful tour of the periodic table. Touching on history, politics, medicine, art, economics, and more, Kean tells fascinating anecdotes about every single element, often recounting the unusual ways that an element Read more