Intraterrestrials - Karen Lloyd ****
Apparently the biogeochemist (who even knew there was such a thing) Karsten Pedersen 'coined the term "intraterrestrials" to describe the ab...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
This is the latest in MIT Press's Radium Age series, which aims to fill in the largely ignored proto-SF work that was produced between the end of the nineteenth century and the flourishing of science fiction of the 1930s and 40s. These have ranged from the direTheodore Savage to the interesting opening book of the series Voices from the Radium Age.The idea of this volume is to give us stories with characters who are more than human, with distinctly mixed results. A lot of what we get are actu...| Popular Science Books
Popular science topics are fairly evenly divided between those that are of pure intellectual interest, such as astronomy or relativity, and those with a direct impact on our lives - such as climate change or quantum physics. There's often a danger with the 'direct impact' that they can be a little worthy and try too hard to be deeply meaningful. For some reason this often seems to be the case with anything food related. But thankfully agriculture is a topic that is both rarely examined and ha...| Popular Science Books
Apparently the biogeochemist (who even knew there was such a thing) Karsten Pedersen 'coined the term "intraterrestrials" to describe the ab...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
Dete Meserve leads Silver Creek Falls Entertainment, a production company that has produced everything from big-budget dramas and mysteries to star-studded comedies and animated series, including the animated PBS Kids STEM series, Ready, Jet, Go!, a science-based series for children centered on astronomy and featuring live-action interstitials with NASA Jet Propulsion Lab astronomer Dr. Amy Mainzer. Dete’s Silver Creek Falls Entertainment has two major new kids’ series coming up this yea...| Popular Science Books
When a book is a classic of the field it can be easy to forget to review it. Richard Feynman's 1985 QED is one of the best-thumbed books on my shelves, and still in print - so it seemed sensible to cover it. Because Feynman has a number of books with his name on the cover from his remarkable anecdotes in Surely You are Joking Mister Feynman? to the anything-but-popular-science Red Book (The Feynman Lectures on Physics), it can be a surprise to realise that he never wrote a book per se. What ...| Popular Science Books
I'm always a little wary of popular science books that start with a personal story, but I'll make an exception for Madeleine Beekman's excellent book, which sets out a possible explanation of our ability to speak, because the approach fits in with a well-balanced combination of storytelling and scientific information. There have been a good number of books that either set out to explain some of our species' physical oddities or abilities that seem to set us apart from other animals. Twenty y...| Popular Science Books
Frank Close is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford. He was one time head of theory at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and head of communications and public education at CERN. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and winner of their Michael Faraday Prize for excellence in science communication in 2013. He is the only professional scientist to have won the Association of British Science Writers Prize on 3 occasions. Author of 22 books on science including The Cos...| Popular Science Books
