Destroyer of Worlds - Frank Close *****
At first glance at the title you might assume that this book is another Oppenheimer biography - and of course he features - but it's far mor...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
I've a huge amount of time for Peter Forbes as a writer. Both his The Gecko's Foot on the science behind some of nature's most remarkable abilities and Dazzled and Deceived on mimicry and camouflage in nature and human endeavour were brilliant. But I'm afraid I found it harder to engage with Thinking Small and Large. There's plenty of good stuff in it, but it didn't grab me in the same way.The topic here is the fundamental importance of microbes to life on Earth. By microbes, he is referring ...| Popular Science Books
It may be a cliché that many scientists are bad communicators - but that doesn't make it untrue. All too often, scientists either don't want to communicate outside their own circle, or are very bad at it - but the reality is, both from a funding viewpoint and to make sure science has a positive impact (a keyword in Anne Helen Toomey's assessment of how scientists should look at their communication) we need scientists to be better at engagement.The opening of the book leans quite heavily on S...| Popular Science Books
I'm giving this dive into a dystopian AI-dominated future four stars despite some significant flaws because I enjoyed it. Mark Gomes likens the impact of AI on humanity over the next few years to one of the palaeological mass extinctions, though in this case potentially destroying a single species - us. Set in the present and near future, we see the AI-driven technology of billionaire Nolan Scent (a musky scent, I suspect) beginning to take away the majority of jobs that aren't manual labour,...| Popular Science Books
Joe Tidy is the BBC’s first Cyber Correspondent and the author of Ctrl+ Alt+ Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet. Joe has built a reputation for investigating the darker sides of the internet and how technology affects the way people live. He is known for tracking down and speaking directly to hackers and criminals who are responsible for some of the biggest cyber incidents of recent times. His top six BBC News documentaries, including The Teenage Millionaire Hacker and The Russi...| Popular Science Books
It's popular science Jim, but not as we know it. There have been plenty of popular science books about the big bang and the origins of the universe (including my own Before the Big Bang) but this is unique. In part this is because it's bang up to date (so to speak), but more so because rather than present the theories in an approachable fashion, the book dives into the (sometimes extremely heated) disputed debates between theoreticians. It's still popular science as there's no maths, but it g...| Popular Science Books
At first glance at the title you might assume that this book is another Oppenheimer biography - and of course he features - but it's far mor...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
Anyone like me with a background in programming is likely to be fascinated (if horrified) by books that present stories of hacking and other...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
It's with a heavy heart that I have to say that I could not get on with this book. The structure is all over the place, while the content ve...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
