Science and Inquiry discussion

Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for August 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 June 21 or when we have about 10 good nominations, whichever occurs first.

Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

Steve wrote: "Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity"

Interesting book. But we've already read it, in August 2021. Here is the discussion thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The End of Everything

I’d like to nominate Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. I see that it’s already on the group shelf, but it’s marked as “to read,” and I can’t find a discussion thread for it anywhere. Sorry if it’s already been read.

I'd like to nominate Noson Yanofsky's The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us.

I'd like to re-nominate:

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

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/... ).

I’d like to nominate: Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science By Nigel McCrery or A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury.

King Solomon's Ring

Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong - Paul A. Offit
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I'd like to nominate The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

Nominations are now closed.

Please vote for your choice at the following poll:

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

which will be open through June 27.