Positive Tipping Points - Tim Lenton ***
In his subtitle, Tim Lenton makes a daring claim: this book is going to tell us how to fix the climate crisis. This is surely very timely wh...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
Even as someone who rarely gets on with 'bitty' books, I was captivated by this collection of articles based primarily on objects in or relating to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. After some introductory material introducing the observatory, the Astronomers Royal and the search for means to identify longitude that was instrumental in the setting up of the Royal Observatory in the 1670s, Louise Devoy splits her history across the first ten Astronomers Royal, taking the reader from 1675 to ...| Popular Science Books
Michael Banks is a science writer and author and is currently news editor of Physics World magazine. As well as Physics World, he has written for Nature, BBC Focus and Science Uncovered as well as appeared on BBC Radio 4 and at science festivals. His first book The Secret Science of Baby was published in 2022 and his new book is Physics Around the Clock.Why science?| Popular Science Books
This is, to say the least, an oddity, but a fascinating one. A translation of a French bestseller, it aims to put forward an examination of the scientific evidence for the existence of a deity… and various other things, as this is a very oddly structured book (more on that in a moment).In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins suggested that we should treat the existence of God as a scientific claim, which is exactly what the authors do reasonably well in the main part of the book. They argue th...| Popular Science Books
At first glance this might appear to be yet another book on how to deal with climate change deniers and the like, such as How to Talk to a Science Denier. It is, however, a much more significant book because it addresses the way that universities, government and pressure groups have attempted to undermine the scientific process. Conceptually I would give it five stars, but it's quite heavy going because it's a collection of around 18 essays by different academics, with many going over the sa...| Popular Science Books
Sarah Bearchell is a science writer and educator who has created educational activities for charities, learned societies and science centres, and who writes regularly for Aquila. The Future of Agriculture is her first book. Why science?| Popular Science Books
In his subtitle, Tim Lenton makes a daring claim: this book is going to tell us how to fix the climate crisis. This is surely very timely wh...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
I found this book hard to rate as it's a really good idea, but one where I'm not sure who the natural audience is. The authors (an astrophysicist and an astronomer) are responding in part to an artist friend who said that she didn't know what scientists do, and also to the zeitgeist where a reasonable proportion of the population don't trust science and scientists, particularly on subjects such as global warming and vaccines.Alan Lightman and Martin Rees, in an introduction that almost makes ...| Popular Science Books
Originally trained in maths and art, Sönke Johnsen has studied optics in biology for the last 35 years, the last 24 of which have been at Duke University. He is particularly interested in vision and light in the open ocean, but has also worked on coastal, freshwater, and terrestrial species, animal navigation, vision at night, and human cataracts. His field work mostly involves open-ocean research cruises that use SCUBA and deep-sea manned or robotic submersibles. In addition to explorin...| Popular Science Books
