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Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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The foxy photographer
This is a (much) longer than usual read. It's a chapter from a book I've been attempting to get together for a long time - but the crossover of science and travel writing doesn't appeal to publishers. This chapter was written 25 years ago (though edited since): as a result aspects like signs mentioned may no longer apply; they were there at the time.It was early when I arrived at
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On the astrophysics side, Marcus Chown's books are very approachable (e.g. https://popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/...) and I liked Jillian Scudder's illustrated Astroquizzical (https://popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/...) - take a look at the 4 or 5 st See Full Answer |
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| Reading Victorian fiction can be difficult without context - in some cases, an annotated version can work wonders. The best remains Martin Gardner's wonderful annotation of the Alice books and The Hunting of the Snark, but while the annotation of Jul ...more | |
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| If there was an A to Z of SF greats, while even younger science fiction readers could probably come up with A for Asimov, far fewer are likely to make Z for Zelazny - which is a shame. Unusually, Zelazny spanned science fiction and fantasy - although ...more | |
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| There have been some excellent books on the origins of life, notably Philip Ball's How Life Works and Henry Gee's A Very Short History of Life on Earth, taking distinctive approaches. The field might feel overcrowded - except Christophe Galfard manag ...more | |
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| This is an odd one. Ignore the title that sounds like it describes what goes on in a household repair shop - Gwen Ottinger makes an important point about the way that the attempt to use science to support social justice - such as when a community is ...more | |
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| There is no doubt that Sophie Hannah sets up an intriguing mystery in the way that this book is framed. When Beth's son has a football match near the home of an old friend, she decides to take a look at the place. Beth's friend cut all contact twelve ...more | |
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This is an absolutely fascinating book for anyone interested in the way that science really works, bearing in mind the difficulties of having to base our models and theories on induction. Andrew Jaffe introduces the difficulties we face when trying to ...more |
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| It can be difficult to come up with a new and different way to look at basic science - but Trisha Muro manages this by using the applications of a whole list of satellites and probes to illustrate basics of physics. This could have got messy, but Mur ...more | |
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| Having recently re-read a classic in Neuromancer, a friend asked if I'd come across Macroscope (which I hadn't). Dating back to 1969, it's very much a period piece. It reinforces my view of Piers Anthony as capable of coming up with interesting and d ...more | |
“Newton’s law of gravitation. That’s all you need (with a spot of calculus to crunch the numbers) to work out how the Earth will orbit the Sun or how an apple will fall if you let it go at a certain height. The only trouble is that Newton had no idea how this gravity thing worked. His model was simply: ‘There is an attraction between bits of stuff, and let’s not bother about why.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“Famously, Einstein said that his ‘happiest thought’ occurred here: ‘I was sitting in a chair in the Patent Office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me. If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled.’ By thinking of someone falling, for example in a plummeting lift, Einstein had realised that it was impossible to distinguish acceleration and the pull of gravity. And working through the mathematical implications of this made it clear that gravity was an effect that could be produced by a distortion of space and time.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.”
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
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