The best of science books in 2015.

1. On the move by Oliver Sacks. 

Missed him so much. My favorite writer on matter of the brain because it is so accessible. 

2. The invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf. 

Haven't come across this one and it sounds interesting. 

3. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall 

Sound cool. 

4. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Pauda 

Cool graphics. 

5. The Blue Whale by Jenni Desmond 

Another blue book. Nice. 

6. The Physicist & the Philosopher by Jimena Canales

Another good one. 

7. What to think about machines that think by John Brockman 

Another good annual book on the latest trend of science topic. 

Bonus. Thunders and Lightning by Lauren Redniss. 

Picture book. 

I have not read any of them, but would read Oliver Sacks and John Brockman ones next year. 

Yesterday I came across an article in Google news, that said: "9 foot long Great White Shark Eaten Alive", and of course I read it.

Apparently marine biologists had tagged a female great white shark with a data/tracking probe.  A couple days ago the tag washed up on the beach, the information that was retrieved from it was astounding.  The tag showed that it had been dragged from relatively shallow water down to 1900ft.  Now for the interesting part, the shark's body temperature slowly decreased as it went deeper, but once it reached 1900 feet the sharks's body temperature jumped from 46 degrees to 78 degrees.  So what could have caused the spike in body temperature?  The marine biologist's seem to believe that the shark was eaten....whole.

Killer whales have been known to kill and eat great white sharks, although never whole.  And because the tag was reading the shark's body temperature all the way down to 1900 feet we know the shark was alive when it reached that depth.  It is possible that a killer whale killed the shark at 1900 feet, but the deepest recorded dive for a killer whale is 800 feet, which means if it was a killer whale they just smashed the old deep dive record.

So begs the question, what killed this great white?  Is it just a killer whale and we really have no idea what their capabilities are?  Or is there some other giant sea creature out there that has yet to be discovered?  Remember, live giant squid measuring 16 feet in length were just discovered ten years ago by Japanese researchers.  It's also said that we know more, and have explored more of the moon then that of the ocean floor, so we really have no idea what kinda of creatures could possibly be down there.