A series of essays that read like an ode to science. Good poetry makes you feel your way to understanding, and these essays let you understand by feeling and just gives enough to whet you curiosity on the topic and give you further ideas for further listening.This book would make a great first scien...
bookshelves: essays, gr-library, nonfiction, published-2013, environmental-issues, tbr-busting-2014, winter-20132014, sciences, psychology, under-500-ratings, next, abandoned, skim-through Read on February 24, 2013 Arrogant title, let see what it delivers! 1. EVOLUTION BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTI...
Essentially a compilation of short articles by eminent scientists & academics about their favourite deep & elegant theories. There's a lot of ground covered from physics to sociology, so there's probably something of interest for everyone.
Arrogant title, let see what it delivers!
This book of collected essays asks the question, "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?" Many people, from Richard Dawkins to Brian Eno to professors you've never heard of (but are amazingly cool), contribute their ideas and theories.The essays are lovingly ordered so that ...
I loved this book for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the thing I loved best about it is how Brand examined his convictions and compared them to the latest and best factual evidence he could find and changed his mind. And that's what science means to me, that continual re-evaluation of things we think...
Where are the citations?!! Its awful how he says stuff like "The science is in" GM foods are safe. Or my other favorite "No American has ever died of radiation poisoning." I know for a fact both are untrue! Arrgggh.
When I first saw this in the bookstore, it looked kind of like corny science fiction or something, but the subtitle "Time & Responsibility" caught my attention. That's the part of the book I enjoyed, although the stuff on the clock was at times interesting. I liked the questions he posed and the l...
Gosh, what a flash from the past. I spent many an hour in the early days reading from this book, randomly picking pages and carrying on until I got tired out.I don't necessarily remember doing many of things in the book, but it certainly made all of us "back in the day" want to go and change the wor...
Brand is all over the library, in terms of writing projects. As far as I know, this is the only book that looks at the way people transform spaces over time. Fascinating.
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