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Curious Reading Club @readcurious.xyz · Feb 24
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Excited to share our book of the month for October: "Beyond Inheritance" by @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social—a fresh perspective on what's going on with your DNA. Turns out we're all mutants!

Sign up to join the club and get your copy today.

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Evolve yourself with October’s book of the month
Roxanne Khamsi’s “Beyond Inheritance” offers a fresh look at genetics.
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October 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Annalee has a new book coming out! Apparently it features an alien slime mold graduate student who changes shape to study Earth-like creatures and hangs out in ancient Pompeii. 🤯🤯🤯
annaleen.bsky.social Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 7d
A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books
Annalee Newitz A Wall Is Also a Road San Francisco Book Launch Green Apple Books on the Park October 6, 7 PM In conversation with M.M. Olivas Book Tour October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas October 7&8 – Chicago 7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway with Michi Trota October 9 – New York New York City Comic-Con October 14 – Boston Brookline Booksmith with Cecilia Tan October 15 – Burlington, VT Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak October 16-18 – Ottawa Can*Con
September 30, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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I don’t know if anyone needs this right now but here are some baby goat zoomies!
September 29, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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One of our picks, Valley of Forgetting by @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social (January 2026) just won the National Association of Science Writers award for book of the year. Congratulations!

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Distinction, drones and drugs
News from around the Curious universe.
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September 28, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Less traffic. Lower emissions. Cleaner air. Better public transit. ✅

In honor of NYC Climate Week, we’re interviewing Louise Yeung, NYC’s Chief Climate Officer

Listen (and review 🌟and follow!) wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧

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September 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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It's your last chance to sign up to our club and get September's book, SOLDIERS AND KINGS,—an astonishing, intimate look at human trafficking from Mexico to the US.

LAT: "a glimpse into a world rarely seen or understood”
NYT: "A rare inside look at human smuggling on the border"

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The cover of Soldiers & Kings by Jason De León, featuring a blue-shaded image of the back of the head of a people smuggler, their hair in cornrows, and bold yellow text. "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling"
September 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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September 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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This is solarpunk art
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The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
September 24, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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AI companies are delaying their IPO's for a very specific reason. Author Cal Newport and @adambecker.bsky.social discuss why they are delaying.
#ai #datmpodcast #future #science #ipo #doomer #deepwork #calnewport #goodnews @multitudeshows.com
September 23, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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"I don't think I really knew that it was going to work until it was done"

We spoke to @robertakwok.bsky.social about her excellent book "Lost in Curiosity," the messy middle of science, and her A+ recommended reading!

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"Seeing how difficult science is was illuminating"
Talking to Roberta Kwok about the research behind the headlines.
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September 20, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Curious synchronicity! Rebecca wrote BY THE FIRE WE CARRY (CUR007) and the work of Navajo scientist Jani Ingram is the focus of chapter 8 of @robertakwok.bsky.social’s LOST IN CURIOSITY (CUR028)

We love to see it!
September 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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The clean energy industry is getting aggressive, super PAC style. This episode, Bill and I spoke with Tom Matzzie, founding chairman of the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, to break down their winning strategy.

Listen-follow-review 🌟wherever you get your podcasts: getitright.earth/podcast
September 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Future generations will call our era of AI-driven content "the Void Ages." I explain it all in @newscientist.com (register for free to read it for free)! www.newscientist.com/article/2584...
Feeding our books into generative AI risks creating a cultural void | New Scientist
When we put our literature, games and films into AI models, we risk replacing our cultural history with a mishmash of auto-generated works. We desperately need to preserve human writing, says columnis...
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September 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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In today’s article, spend A Day in the Life of freelance science writer @robertakwok.bsky.social! Between promoting her new book, Lost in Curiosity, communications work, and prepping to teach a workshop, there’s a lot to glean from her current day-to-day.
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A Day in the Life of Roberta Kwok - The Open Notebook
Roberta Kwok is the author of Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes From Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown, published July 2026. She’s a freelance science writer and former MIT Knight Science…
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September 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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This week's guest, linguist @emilymbender.bsky.social, talks with @adambecker.bsky.social about the origin of her famous paper on LLM’s,
“On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots”
#ai #datmpodcast #future #science #llm #linguist #stochastic #parrots
September 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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What makes Jason de León's "Soldiers and Kings" work so well? One reason is how comfortable it is with ambiguity, and how it sets the reader up for life in the gray zone. Our close read is here: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/close-read...
A migrant walks along the railway tracks in Juarez, Mexico.
September 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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The messy business of making science happen: I review Roberta Kwok's (@robertakwok.bsky.social) “Lost in Curiosity” for @undark.org: #science #books
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Book Review: The Messy Business of Making Science Happen
Roberta Kwok’s “Lost in Curiosity” makes the case for luck and hard work over eureka moments in advancing science.
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September 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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ICYMI: Season 5 of the What If We Get It Right? podcast has an incredible new co-host! I’m teaming up with OG climate legend @billmckibben.bsky.social to cover everything you need to know about environmental issues leading up to Election Day.

Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧
September 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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September's book of the month is "Soldiers and Kings" by Jason De León, a fascinating, harrowing look at human smugglers who ferry undocumented migrants across the US border. The anthropologist embedded himself with coyotes across seven years to write it.

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Hit the road with our book of the month
"Soldiers and Kings" by Jason De León is our pick for September 2026.
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September 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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If you liked our book of the month, "Lost in Curiosity," here are three books that take you behind the scenes of the scientific life in different but interesting ways.

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Behind the scenes of science
Three recommendations if you liked "Lost in Curiosity"
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August 23, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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One thing we really appreciated about our book of the month "Lost in Curiosity" is how patient it is. Author Roberta Kwok followed scientists throughout their research, not just calling them up afterwards. You'd be surprised how rarely that happens.

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Nevertheless, she persisted
Appreciating "Lost in Curiosity" for its unusual perspective.
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August 17, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Our country's R&D infrastructure has been disrupted and getting it back won't be easy. Our guest this week is @alondra.bsky.social , former head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under Joe Biden. #datmpodcast #aiethics #science @adambecker.bsky.social @multitudeshows.com
August 11, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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"You don't have to be an oracle. Just go to the library."

We had a delightful conversation with @susanamorris.bsky.social about her book "Positive Obsession," the reality of Octavia Butler's prophetic prose... and alien sex vampires.

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"You don't have to be an oracle. Just go to the library."
Talking to Susana M. Morris about Octavia Butler, and more.
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August 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Our book of the month for August is @robertakwok.bsky.social’s brand new “Lost in Curiosity”—a collection of surprising, sharp portraits of researchers at work.

It’s pop science that avoids the typical pop science narrative. Sign up to get your copy now!

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Surprise yourself with August's book of the month
We're reading "Lost in Curiosity" by Roberta Kwok.
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August 1, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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We don't generally pick biographies or books about artists and writers -- so this month's choice of POSITIVE OBSESSION was a little unusual.

Here are three other works about creative minds that cover everything from art scenes and innovation to grief.

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Three biographies of art and artists to pair with "Positive Obsession"
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July 26, 2026 at 5:23 PM