Science and Inquiry discussion

Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for February 2023.

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.

To check whether a book has been previously read or already selected to be read, check the following list: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

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.

Authors and publishers may not nominate their own books.

Please do not nominate a book which is unlikely to be available to most 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 Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett and re-nominate the Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt.

Here is the link:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

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

I nominate Janna Levin Black Hole Survival Guide

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Hayley wrote: "The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee"

It appears that this book was just published a couple of months ago. Please wait a couple more months, and re-nominate it again!

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... ). Also, this group needs more dino love ;) Seriously, the last time a dino book won was March 2019 ( https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ).

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

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Can I nominate Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday since I messed up my first nomination?

Here is another good title from Siddhartha Mukherjee … The Gene: An Intimate History

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

melissa wrote: "Hello…I nominate Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake"

Good book. But we've already read it. In February 2021. Here is the discussion thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t check that first.

melissa wrote: "Here is another good title from Siddhartha Mukherjee … The Gene: An Intimate History"

Yes, another good book. But we've already read it. In October 2016. Here is the discussion thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oh my goodness. I’m sorry.

Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin

This might not qualify because it has a lot of graphics so it isn't on audio but I thought it would be fun to throw it out there.

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a super coral that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.

One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. From Goodreads.

Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I’ve nominated this one before not making the cut, so again “the invisible rainbow” by Firstenberg. Still on my to read list on bookshelve

Albert-Jan wrote: "I’ve nominated this one before not making the cut, so again “the invisible rainbow” by Firstenberg. Still on my to read list on bookshelve"

Here's the link: The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Pramod wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6..."

This book was just published a couple of months ago. Please wait a few months and nominate it again.

Nominations are now closed. Please vote for your preference at the following poll:

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

which will be open through December 27.