The Crowd and the Cosmos
Chris Lintott is a professor of astrophysics at Oxford, co-presenter of the BBC's Sky at Night and the principal investigator of the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org), an…… Read More »
Category: Science
Blossoms
A cutting-edge book about the genetics behind flowers in five parts, explaining what plants are and what they can do, how genes work, the timing…… Read More »
THE MYTHOLOGY OF EVOLUTION
Chris Bateman offers in this book a set of myths (metaphors or stories) which he suggests are at the base of evolutionary theory as currently…… Read More »
Surfing the Quantum World
A lucid and comprehensive text on quantum mechanics for lay people. Access to this page is restricted to Members and Friends of the Scientific and… Read More »
WHY ONLY US: LANGUAGE AND EVOLUTION
This is not a book for the faint-hearted and, unless there has been some serious brightening-up in recent years, readers able to understand its every…… Read More »
Mass
In this informative and readable account, the author traces the history of mass from the Greek atomists to quantum fields. He shows how modern developments…… Read More »
A Troublesome Inheritance
When I first heard of Guns, Germs and Steel (GGS), by Jared Diamond, I was disinclined to read it, and still have not done so…… Read More »
EXPERIMENT EARTH
In their 2009 report entitled Geo-engineering the climate: science, governance and uncertainty, the Royal Society defines geo-engineering as the 'deliberate and large-scale intervention in the…… Read More »
Fashion, Faith and Fantasy --- in the New Physics of the Universe
Roger Penrose is not only a great physicist, but a great communicator of complicated scientific issues that embrace mathematics, physics, artificial intelligence and cosmology. At…… Read More »
THE ANCIENT ORIGINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Ancient Origins fills a "gap" but not philosopher Joseph Levine's still-intractable, mysterious gap "between the physical properties of the brain…and the subjective experiences that the…… Read More »