Science and Inquiry discussion

Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for March 2020.

Please use the "add book/author" link just above the comment box to insert a link to the Goodreads book page for the book you are nominating, so other members can more easily assess it. Apparently this only works on the desktop version of the site; if you use the app, the link is not available yet.

You may nominate a book which has been suggested previously and did not win. You may nominate more than one book, but we might not include all of your nominations in the voting.

Please do not nominate a book which is unlikely to be available to all members, such as one which was just published within the last three months or which is only available on Kindle in the U.S.

Nominations will close on January 20 or when we have about 10 good nominations, whichever occurs first.

Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas

The Enigma of Reason

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

I'll give another go for The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford, just because he's such a good writer and I've not read this one yet.

Hi, I will nominate

Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Undermines Tomorrow's Medicine by Richard F. Harris

The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks

Thanks, Hayley, for bringing Rigor Mortis to my attention!

Wawrzyniec wrote: "Thanks, Hayley, for bringing Rigor Mortis to my attention!"

It's scary, but good.

We already read Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions, last January.

The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

Marc wrote: "The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design"

This book is a little too new. It was just published November 1, 2019. Wait several months and you can nominate it again.

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
also sounds terrific

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Darren wrote: "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"

This is our selection for February 2020.

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Max Tegmark

So what's the cutoff for how new a book can be? September 2019 is okay for February 2020 and November 2019 is too recent for March 2020; it's 3 or 4 months then?

I would like to nominate Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing

Marc wrote: "So what's the cutoff for how new a book can be? September 2019 is okay for February 2020 and November 2019 is too recent for March 2020; it's 3 or 4 months then?"

Three months. But it's not absolute. It's also affected by how many editions are available.

By my count, we have eight nominations. There are two more days before the close of nominations.

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King.

The Story of Mathematics: In 24 Equations

Nominations are now closed. I will be issuing a link to a poll shortly.

Here is the poll where you can vote for your preference:

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

The poll will close at the end of January 27.