Battle of the Big Bang - Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Harper *****
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 u...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
If I'm honest, I assumed this would be another 'oh dear, we're horrible people who are terrible to the environment', worthily dull title - so I was surprised to be gripped from early on. The subject of the first chunk of the book is one man, Tim Searchinger's fight to take on the bizarrely unscientific assumption that held sway that making ethanol from corn, or burning wood chips instead of coal, was good for the environment.The problem with this fallacy, which seemed to have taken in the US ...| 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 u...| 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
