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That 70s Novel Author: Mary E. Kingsley Every kid probably feels at some point that the entire adult world is conspiring against them, keeping vital knowledge to themselves in order to keep children ignorant of the world.  You know, like what that person really said in the bleeped out part of the TV show.  Angel Bishop certainly feels that way, probably because her family refuses to talk about the one thing she desperately wants to know – why her father abandoned them.  Some kids have more legitimate paranoia than others. In Mary E. Kingsley’s novel Angel, we enter the title [...]

The Molecule of Life... Author:  Sam Kean It used to be so mysterious, but everybody now knows that our DNA is what makes us who we are.  Long strings of simple code bundled up in our cells provide the blueprint that’s followed to make each unique human.  But despite decades of genetic science plenty of puzzles remain.  How do your cells know which DNA to use?  How does a liver cell know that it’s not a kidney cell?  Where did all this “junk” DNA come from and is it really junk?  Why do some genes cause cancer (or Parkinson’s disease) [...]