Science Comics: Dinosaurs!
Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic -- dinosaurs, coral reefs, volcanoes, the solar system, bats, flying machines, and more.
These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!
This volume: in Dinosaurs, learn all about the history of paleontology! This fascinating look at dinosaur science covers the last 150 years of dinosaur hunting, and illuminates how our ideas about dinosaurs have changed-- and continue to change.
MK Reed is the writer of Americus, The Cute Girl Network, and Palefire. She draws a web-comic adaptation of Irish mythology, About a Bull. MK lives with her very tall husband.
Joe Flood is a cartoonist and illustrator whose work includes Orcs: Forged for War and The Cute Girl Network. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his family.
Avocados should not exist
“The avocado is highly regarded by many people as delicious and nutritious, but the most extraordinary thing about avocados may be their very existence.”
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Animated interview with Carl Sagan about extraterrestrial life, Hollywood, and God
“A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong,” Sagan told Studs Terkel in 1985. (Blank on Blank)
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Doctors who get pharma money prescribe brand-name drugs instead of generics
It’s an open secret that the pharmaceutical industry spends billions marketing to doctors, deliberately misleading them about their products, raking in record profits that they shift into offshore tax-havens through legally questionable means, while lobbying for global treaties that benefit them at the expense of the sick.
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Tech up with a Complete Computer Science Bundle: Now 89% Off
If you didn’t go to college for your technology training, there’s a good chance that you probably wish that you had. But today, so much quality IT training happens off tradition collegiate campuses that it’s just about finding the RIGHT package of learning that’ll set you up for the career you want.And if you can […]
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Bootcamps are all the rage these days and if you’re going to drill obsessively deep into any core programming discipline, you probably won’t find a more deserving recipient of that super-intensive study time than Java. Java’s simple, adaptable and – probably not coincidentally – one of the most widely-used programming languages and platforms across the […]
