Luigi Vacca - Five Way Interview
Luigi Vacca holds a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and has spent decades working at the intersections of science, finance, and AI...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
I felt a touch misled by the subtitle of this book - it refers to 'the film factory'. While technically accurate, I think most people think of 'the film factory' as a term for Hollywood, where in fact what's meant here are the two photochemical giants of the era, Kodak and AGFA. Admittedly, Hollywood gets plenty of mentions, but the movie studios' use of materials from these companies is totally dwarfed by their wider use.At the heart of the book is the chemistry necessary to make film - firs...| Popular Science Books
This book was described to me as a 'gripping technological thriller'. It's not that at all - it's a book driven by ideas and politics which for structural reasons entirely fails to thrill, but is interesting nonetheless.Ray Nayler portrays a grim future - the West has replaced democracy with AI benevolent dictators as permanent 'Prime Ministers', while 'the Federation', essentially Russia, has an eternal non-benevolent dictator as its President, able to move from body to body. While both of t...| Popular Science Books
Michael Grunwald is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author who is now a contributor to the New York Times opinion section. His new book, We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate, is already transforming the debate over how to feed the world without frying it. Mike is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, Time, and Politico Magazine, and the critically acclaimed author of The Swamp (about the Eveglades and Florida) and The New New Deal...| Popular Science Books
One of the easiest ways to make science accessible is to tie it to everyday life - and this is something Michael Banks does well in his exploration of physical goings on from breakfast to bedtime. Each of twelve chapters focuses on an aspect of our non-working/sleeping time. We begin with the morning coffee, take on the physics of breakfast food and so on, travelling through the day to end up in front of the TV show or film. I was impressed by just how much Banks could get from the simple (o...| Popular Science Books
It's hard to believe that there could be anything more that could usefully be written about Einstein - and then this impressive little book comes along. ('Little' is not a negative here - I love short books that cram a lot in, and this one delivers impressively.) Rather than present us with the classic scientific biography, Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael Gordin take six different cuts through Einstein's life and work, examining the process that produced his views and beliefs.After a prolog...| Popular Science Books
Luigi Vacca holds a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and has spent decades working at the intersections of science, finance, and AI...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
