Science and Inquiry discussion

Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for February 2021.

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, so just be sure to put the full title and author.

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 December 21 or when we have about 10 good nominations, whichever occurs first.

I nominate Dinosaurs: How they lived and evolved. It's the best natural history of dinos for adults. I reviewed the 1st edition ( https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ). This group needs more dino love.

I'll nominate The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World - by Paul Morland

The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data - David Spiegelhalter

I nominate Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide: How Lethal Zoonotic Viruses Spill Over and Threaten Us by Warren A. Andiman.

I will nominate Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake.

Candice wrote: "I nominate Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide: How Lethal Zoonotic Viruses Spill Over and Threaten Us by Warren A. Andiman."

This was a good book; we already read it, in August 2020.

We only have four valid nominations so far. You have until Monday evening to make nominations.

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

1) Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

2) Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic by Matt McCarthy

Nominations are now closed. Because we only had seven total nominations, I added a couple books that were runners up in recent polls.

Please vote for your preference at the following poll:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

which will be open through December 28.