I’ve been pretty bad about reviewing our past books of the month, which is unfortunate because I actually have read all of them! To save you from some epic tl;dr and as the only way to finally be done with these books, I’m jamming them all into one post! This way I can give some short commentary instead of headdesking my way through full-fledged reviews for each book.
Author and physicist Lee Smolin bravely faces the sad truth about the state of his science in his book The Trouble With Physics. As his introduction makes abundantly clear, “This is a story of a quest to understand nature at its deepest level… To put it bluntly… we have failed.”
Hey y’all, Readhead Reviews is happy to announce a new feature – video posts! In our first post, I give a brief review of a Jane Austen-based book and a preview for a book I’m starting to read about paleontology and dinosaur fossils.
When I first found out the Book of the Month was going to be a science book, I wasn’t completely thrilled. Science and I do not get along and the idea of reading a 500 page book revolving around all things science did not sound like a good time to me.
The controversial Richard Dawkins’ new book responds to creationists’ question, “Where is the proof?” The Greatest Show on Earth generally takes a gentler, more persuasive tone than his previous books, but Dawkins may be preaching to the choir.
Every month the readheads pick one book that all three of us read and review. Our first book of the month for 2010(!) is Timothy Ferris’ Coming of Age in the Milky Way (2003 edition).
