If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This excerpt of Marianne Taylor's The Story of Life in 10 and a Half Species explores in text and photos the tiny but powerful earthling, the virus.
Biology professor Mohamed A. F. Noor voyages through deep sci-fi in Live Long and Evolve, exploring how evolutionary biology is portrayed within the television franchise, Star Trek.
In The History of White People, historian Nell Irvin Painter suggests that we are witnessing another enlargement of the concept of whiteness rather than a transformation of America into a post-racial society, as some, at both ends of the political spectrum, like to claim.
