![]() The answer, he discovered, lies in our genetics: two X chromosomes offer a powerful survival advantage. ![]() Sharon Moalem drew on his own medical experiences - treating premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit recruiting the elderly for neurogenetic studies tending to HIV-positive orphans in Thailand - and tried to understand why in every instance men were consistently less likely to thrive. Why is this? And why are we taught the opposite? They are simply stronger than men at every stage of life. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. ![]() Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardĪn award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life ![]()
0 Comments
![]() Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.īut there must always be an account… and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. ![]() ![]() Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Shortlisted for the Japanese Seiun Award Shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award 2015 Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award NPR Best of 2019 Selection Guardian Best SF/F 2013 Selection Daily Mail’s 2013 Fantasy Novel of the Year Selection IO9’s Best of 2013 Selection Locus Recommended Reading List 2013įor seventy years they guarded the British Empire. ![]() ![]() On their date, Marcus quickly realizes he wants more from April than a one-time publicity stunt. And when Marcus asks her out to spite her internet critics, truth officially becomes stranger than fanfiction. When she dares to post her latest costume creation on Twitter, her plus-size take goes viral. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s long hidden her fanfic and cosplay hobbies from her “real life”-but not anymore. ![]() ![]() But if anyone discovered his online persona, he’d be finished in Hollywood.Īpril Whittier has secrets of her own. Marcus gets out his frustrations with the show through anonymous stories about the internet’s favorite couple, Aeneas and Lavinia. The world may know him as Aeneas, star of the biggest show on television, but fanfiction readers call him something else: Book!AeneasWouldNever. ![]() Olivia Dade bursts onto the scene in this delightfully fun romantic comedy set in the world of fanfiction, in which a devoted fan goes on an unexpected date with her celebrity crush, who’s secretly posting fanfiction of his own. ![]() |