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Author - Year
Title of Piece
Summary
Angier, Natelie
Chaperoning Proteins
The intricacies of chaperon proteins and thier role in cellular function.
Angier, Natelie


A New Theory of Menstruation-Reading
A newly proposed theory explaining the importance of menstruation in mammals.
Angier, Natelie                                                                      
Why Vegetables are Good For You
Ingredients found in fruits, vegetables, beans, and herbs, the more impressive appears the power of those compounds to retard the bodily breakdown.
Fleming, Alexander
By: Royston M. Roberts
Antibiotics & Alexander Fleming
Perhaps the best known important accidental discovery is Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin.
Haldane, J.B.S. - 1950's
On Being the
Right Size

For every type of animal there is a most convenient size, and a large change in size inevitably carries with it a change of form.
Huxley, Thomas Henry
We All Use the Scientific Method
In this selection Huxley's chief purpose is to ground his listeners in the scientific method.

 Leeuwenhoek, Anton Van - 1675

Animalcules

 Leeuwenhoek describes his "animalcules" and reveals the ingenuity of his experimental technique.

Zimmer, Carl


Parasite Rex-Nature's Criminals
A creepy account of the history of the science of Parasitology.




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