Science Book Club discussion

Add your book suggestions for our Oct book of the month poll. The poll will run Sept 1 to 7.

A couple of times recently our monthly selection has turned out to not be readable unless you have some specialist knowledge on that topic. I was probably the one who suggested those books in the first place. The mistake I made was just looking at the title and topic and not investigating the exact nature of the book.

A couple of things everyone can do to reduce this problem in the future, is to add your suggestions to these monthly suggestion discussions and to vote on the polls.

We often only get 2 votes, then I add a 3rd vote to break the tie. More votes would ensure that I am not the one choosing our book of the month.

We keep getting new members, so hopefully some of you will step up and lead the discussions, since I am no good at that.

Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math by Daniel Tammet

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke

Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási

The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

A video about the book: https://youtu.be/M9hfWiQKhcs

Here is where I got the idea for adding this book: https://medium.com/personal-growth/cl...

Lots of good book suggestions this time !

time to vote

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...