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UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW

By Richard Dawkins

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Houghton Mifflin, 337 pages, $26

Popular culture often confuses superstitions with science, argues Richard Dawkins in this strident but entertaining book. Dawkins, author of “The Selfish Gene” and the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, urges readers to consider the universe in terms of probabilities rather than coincidences–and to ignore the scientists who insist on cultivating “whacky” personalities and “larky voices” and making science absurdly accessible by performing tricks in shopping malls.