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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D Barrow1787333175|title=The Book Of Universes|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=The idea of a 'multiverse' - multiple universes existing alongside each other - is something science fiction and fantasy fans are fairly au fait with. Parallel realities in which you made a different decision at a pivotal moment and, as a consequence, have evolved in entirely different ways, have been fodder for authors, scriptwriters and You Don'what if' musings for some time, but recently, scientists - specifically cosmologists - have been taking increasingly seriously.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539861</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewt Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Nicholas Mee|title=Higgs ForceBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5

|summary=Nicholas Mee, I was a Senior Wrangler at Trinity College, Cambridge and having taken his PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics by submitting his thesis on tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Geometry'after enjoying Adam Kay', he s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is uniquely qualified Going to explain the mysteries Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the Higgs force. He is also a fellow workings of the Royal Astronomical SocietyNHS, humour and autobiography. Whereas other texts rapidly resort to references to erudite constructs like 'non-zero expectation values', You Don'zz Dibosons' and t Have to be Mad...'Bose-Einstein statistics', Dr Mee provides an accurate account of promised the Geneva experiments with the Large Hadron Collider, provides his readers with some insight into same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the character work of eminent physicists, and furnishes a lucid account of current theoriespsychiatrist. Included I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is an exposition of the discovery of elements by Sir Humphry Davy to recent experiments to discover Peter Higg's elusive particledirected at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718892755</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart1788360702|title=17 Equations That Changed Charles, The WorldAlternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst

|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''17 Equations That Changed the WorldCharles, The Alternative Prince'' takes us through critically assesses the history of mathematics, from Pythagoras through EinsteinPrince's theory opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of relativy and chaos theorythe scientific evidence. It highlights the most influently equations, clearly explains them, There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and establishes his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the full ranges reputation of a man who is proud of breakthroughs they led his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning tohis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685311</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz (editors)0192779230|title=Queen Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of the SunGerms|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I kept bees for 5 or 6 years and read many books about the subject, 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all of word to cover anything unpleasant which has the 'how potential tomake you ill..' or ' In the science of… variety. But this first book is in what looks to be a revelation as it genuinely tries to celebrate beesvery promising new series, capturing the real 'feel' of beekeeping - I wish I had come across this much sooner. For Siegel OUP and Betz Isabel Thomas have collected provided a series of short articles, poems clear and essays not about accessible introduction to the technique and science world of the craft, but germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about the purpose diseases and 'soul' behind it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570341</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Skene|title=Escape from Bubbleworld|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Before you stifle the inward groan that comes from the what they thought of another book assaulting population growth, western greed caused them and reckless exploitation of how the environment, take thinking has developed over time to read the first chapter of Keith Skene. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's speak like a scientist'Escape to Bubbleworld'. Because this is as entertaining which explains some of the trickiest concepts and amusing book as you are likely to read on the subject'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, while at the same time taking us into to some deep science protists and viruses – and fascinating exploration of what turns out to be less certain certaintieshow we should protect ourselves. For Skene’s writing has two attributes which I can almost guarantee will keep even the non-scientific reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956250122</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Maloufgareth_steel|title=The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern WorldNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ThereI don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals''s something quite uplifting about the physical brevity it seems to be appropriate. Stories of David Maloufa vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'The Happy Life' which is subtitled definitely not the companion volume you'The Search ve been looking for Contentment in . As a TV show the Modern Worldauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. It suggests Gareth Steel says that it is easy to find, when of course, the whole point of the book is that despite, or perhaps because of, scientific not suitable for younger readers and technological advances - after reading - I agree with him. He says that have taken away many of the causes of true unhappiness in the world, he's written it remains elusive for most. Who can say that they are truly happy? The book runs to less than 100 pages if you take out the Notes sectioninform and provoke thought, and the typeface is largeparticularly amongst aspiring vets. It isdeals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, by any reckoning a slim offeringalthough there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187115</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Chown0241480442|title=Solar SystemHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=With beautiful photographs of Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the wonders of the solar systemway in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, this is I am not a gorgeous coffee table book vegan. It worked for anyone a while apart from the odd blip with even regard to cheese but then a passing interest perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in astronomyyour lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. Marcus Chown It wasn's descriptions are int the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom -depth enough it was the ease of being able to warrant considered reading, but if you're after get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a simple and casual flick through, you'll still find plenty to appealfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571277713</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark ForsythDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=The EtymologiconA Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=TriviaAutobiography|summary=I like words. Words are awesome. End Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense ofself. But I also have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like triviaa statue over time affected the elements. I like knowing things It seems as if nature wants that perhaps other people don’t, final victory over you and helpfully passing on this knowledge to themyour dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. So a book about word-related trivia Daniel Gibbs is just a win-win, neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and this one is so good I think we’ll have to call it a win-win-winhas documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Barnes0099551063|title=Birdwatching With Your Eyes ClosedThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: an introduction to birdsongLessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|summary=One of my best-ever auditory memories is waking up in a tent to a dawn chorus, sung in the middle of Ireland in spring. It was a high-decibel effort and seemed to involve hundreds of birds. I'm ashamed to say that I couldn't begin to identify the multitude of species I heard that morning. So I suppose I chose this book expecting it to be a field guide that could at long last help me get a handle 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on birdsongpsychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. But it isn't yet another handbook, but a much more interesting book than that, which I thought would make a great present for a new birdwatcher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595473</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Steve Backshall|title=Predators|rating=4|genre=ChildrenUntil the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they's Non-Fiction|summary=Many readers would re probably know convinced that on the simple count they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little of humans they helped its shock value but it does help us to dispatch, mosquitoes may be understand more about the most deadly animals evernature of psychopathy. But did you know that if you take into account It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the success rate of huntsYorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, diversity and spreadSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>the real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Leith1849767343|title=You Talkin' To Count on Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Over the years I've trained myself (fairly successfully) not The title and format of this book might lead you to judge a book by its cover. Ithink that it've added s either about responsibility - or it'not judging s a book by its title' to the training, but what do you do when your first impressions of a book basic 1- the title ''and'' the cover 2- scream 'trivia'? Well, I put this one to one side 3 book for those just starting out on the basis that numbers journey. It isn't: it really wasn't likely s a hymn of praise to be a book which would interest memaths. Picking It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it up and looking at the contents was almost accidental - and then I discovered that this book is a gold minein everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683157</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon GriceB08B39QNRH|title=The Book Curious History of Deadly Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal to the other. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, and that the real animal knew it was second best to humans, having been saved in the Ark, and respected our dominion over them. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. But where is the wrong in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her own toddlerWriter's honeyCramp: Solving an age-dripping hand (true story - what the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we don't know) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewold problem|author=Thomas Byrne and Tom Cassidy|title=How to Save the World with Salad DressingMichael Pritchard|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=The world is under threat from a manic Bond-type baddie. You, my friendly reader, are the only person with the smarts enough to save it. You'd better not be one of my less intelligent friends, because according to this book one needs a lot of physics-inclined lateral thinking to carry out the dangerous tasks ahead. You'll need to know about gravity and other forces, buoyancy, friction, acceleration and more to get through the puzzles here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688552</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Hayden|title=You Kant Make it Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Greatest Philosophers|rating=3.54

|summary=In You Kant Make it Up, journalist and philosopher Gary Hayden takes his readers through some of ''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the biggest and most important ideas right from the very beginnings of philosophical thought up to the philosophy of the modern day. He gives a brief explanation and discussion of each idea, and shows how through the ages philosophers have argued pretty much everything you could think of, much of which seems bizarre to the modern thinkerwritten word''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688455</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Stephen H Segal|title=Geek Wisdom|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I am by no means a fully fledged geek, but on the Big Bang scale Icame to Michael Pritchard'm probably more of a Leonard than a Penny. I was weaned on s ''Star Trek 'The Curious History of Writer', chose s Cramp''Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as my reading aloud piece for by a Year 7 exam, and think it would be more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Conrather strange route. At the same time, there are gaping holes in I have problems with my knowledge. My first celeb crush might have been hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'Blake’s 7’s: I prefer the word 'painful' Villa but I've never seen a ''Batman'' film, never read a comic book, never quite understood what all have an interest in the ''Star Wars'' fuss was aboutway that hands work. If Sci Fi is An exploration of the history of a religionproblem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, then this is with the book that can fill me in one being as much about the stories, doctors treating the parables, sufferers and the rules, changing medical attitudes as it were, of geekdom. I had to have itthe problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745277</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'Hare1776572858|title=Why Are Orangutans Orange?|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Another year has passed, and once again we're treated to another offering from New Scientist's Last Word column. We've been here before, with [[Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? by Mick O'Hare|Penguins]], [[How Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|Polar Bears]], [[How To You Make A Tornado by Mick O'Hare|Tornadoes]], [[Why Can't Elephants Jumpa Baby? by Mick O'Hare|Elephants]] and [[How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare|Hamsters]]. Now it's time for the orangutan to find out why he's orange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Crystal|title=The Story Of English In 100 WordsAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Crystal is It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a god when book about it comes to language. I’ve known that since A couple of days later I was quoting him during English A Levelhanded a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, since my university studies, since my TEFL days when students ask in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''Why?wasn' and you need an answer other than t something which nice people talked about'Because'. This is his new book I ''knew'' more, but you don’t need a degree in linguistics to find it fascinatingwas little ''wiser''. Thankfully, and in addition to the intriguing revelations and chummy writing style, it looks just lovely and would make a fab Christmas presenttimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684277</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Niall McCraeDanny Dorling|title=The Moon and MadnessSlowdown

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=A book entitled ''The Moon We are living in a time of rapid change, and Madnesswe'' has re worried about it. Dorling tells us that the potential to be a pile of New Age hokum. This learned and academic treatise by Niall McCrae latter is very far from hokumnormal, natural and there is not a whiff of New Age hanging over itprobably good for us. We probably all have an old folklore image in our minds are designed to worry and with the current state of lunatics what we're doing in the asylum howling at world we have much to be worried about. However, over the full moon. Of coursenext three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the very word arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn'lunatict be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we' has its origins in re worrying about the moonwrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. McCrae tries to separate myth In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and fact the direction of change will in this fascinating booksome cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845402146</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John L LockeLangford_Emily|title=Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So DifferentlyEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=LockeEmily found words ''s subtitle useful''Why Men , but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and Women Talk So Differentlythere'' might lead s no limit to how far you to think that can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this is just another self-help list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Men are from Mars, Women are from Venusthreeven'' tome. It(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – that men and women do not communicate very well because re a subset of some fundamental difference in their respective approach the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to verbal expression – be a subset of the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets even numbers, but it all worked out to explain WHY that might bewell when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Connor1910593508|title=Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical ThingsApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=...In which our author considers This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the smallersubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, less noticeable items in our livesChris Baker and Mike Collins. He finds such objects as sticky tape, combs This is a story we know well and keys magicalbecause of this, because "the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can do whatever we like to things, but magical things fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are things that we allow and expect the only downside to do things back to usthe book. Magical things all do more, and mean more than they might If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be supposed to." Principally these are familiar with the little flotsam slight feeling that wash up on our desks, the handy things we keep in our pockets there are scenes missing and about our person, that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and never think about - wave about, flick about, fiddle with, but never think aboutstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682703</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Brooks1999308719|title=Free RadicalsLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=We often have an image of scientists as quietly plodding awayFor many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, with small breakthrough after small breakthroughit was working out OK. When the big breakthroughs come, they downplay things, Time has passed though and insist upon logical although I'm a great deal fitter and level-headed cautionhealthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It's all very mild-mannered was time to look for a new approach and politeas so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ...Or is it? The history of science is splattered with radicals ''Live Forever Manual: Science, whoethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'll do anything for success. There are those who mercilessly put down their rivals, those who use drugs to stimulate their breakthroughs, those who put themselves in harm's way in seemed like the pursuit of truth, and those who answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just plain go about things their own way, regardless of what anyone else says101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684056</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Wheen1847941834|title=Dot-Dash To Dot.ComAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=You know exactly what I've said this before but there are some books that you're getting when seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read the summary of Andrew Wheenthem, like, right now! 's 'Atomic Habits'Dot-Dash To Dot.Com''. ''How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet'' sums it up perfectly. This is a history of technology and in the people involved in creating that technology. It serves as a primer for anyone with an interest or need to know about telecommunicationslast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441967591</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie PainHoneyborne BlueII|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding TrousersBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The history You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ..prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more.It's also filled with exploding trousersThat has hardly been proven correct, selfbut it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema -experimentation, you barely got a coachman's leg that becomes TV series worthy of a museum piece numbered sequel, and gasnever in the world of non-powered radiosfiction. ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discovery. Part popular science bookIf someone has made a nature series about, part triviasay, each article is Alaska (and boy aren't there are a treat lot of those these days) and wants to readmake another, either as a funwhy she just makes another -sized nuggetnothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, or when reading from cover the energy and the heft to coverdemand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonah Lehrer1783099593|title=Proust Was a NeuroscientistSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare wrote,'Time hath, my lord, Speaking Up' has a wallet fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at his back, wherin he puts alms for oblivion'. This fully accords with the discoveries our use of modern brain science. Proust language in his famous novelmedia, 'In Search of Lost Time' anticipates such discoveries by neuroscientistseducation, such as Rachel Hertzreligion, that smell and taste are the only senses that connect directly to the hippocampus. Thus the taste of a petit madeleine evokes a rediscovery by Proust of Combray workplace and a flow of associations - it is the part of the brain in which long term memory is centredpersonal relationships. Lehrer in ' Proust was a Neuroscientist' weaves Author Allyson Jule calls on an intriguing argument about encyclopedic body of research from the relationship between recent neuroscientific discoveries and mid-twentieth century to the novels of George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolfpresent day. A scientistReading it, who we feel that she has researched with Nobel Prize-winning, [[:Category:Eric R Kandel|Eric Kandel]], studied everything that has a taste for philosophyever been said on gendered linguistics; Lehrer intends to heal the rift between what C.P.Snow termed the 'Two Cultures'. He wishes to accord respect to the truths she references Foucault and the intuitive discoveries, especially of modernist writers and paintersKardashians with equal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847677851</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Lister-KayeCampbell_Astra|title=At the Water's EdgeAd Astra: A Walk in An illustrated guide to leaving the Wildplanet|author=Dallas Campbell|rating=35

|summary=This is a book that readers feel strongly about, and one with which I must confess So… you want to having a love/hate relationship! I loved leave the detailed observation, planet? Before you do you'd better study the sharing whole history of knowledge human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a while… if only there was a handy guide that Lister-Kaye has built from a lifetime of close study of the countrysidecould condense it all down for you. He delights in and pays as much attention Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the structure of a spider's web as to the rarest of meetings with a Scottish wildcatplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847674054</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartAdrian_Sock|title=Mathematics of LifeSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian

|summary=Mathematics The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and biology donyet my partner't traditionally mixs daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. As science developsIt's something I use for about 200 days of every year, the boundaries between maths and physicsat a guess (well, physics and chemistry and chemistry and biology I have become more my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and more blurred. As it is nowother people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of the scale to well-known mass-murderer of women, biology requires many mathematical techniquesTed Bundy, and it's fair who was into stealing credit cards to assume that major biological breakthroughs over the next hundred years will also have fund his desire of having a strong basis in maths toofresh pair every single day. Ian Stewart looks at On which subject, the major steps forward in amount of them we create every year could stack to the history of biologyfreaking moon and more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs a year, apparently, and the areas where maths which is at plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the forefront of developmenthumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681987</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony JamesGermano_Eye|title=The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob BronowskiEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary=Jacob Bronowski was a scientific administratorIt's happened to me, poetand like as not it has or will happen to you, philosophertoo. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, dramatist, radio with a positive or negative before them to prove the correction needed to my vision to make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of my eye to check for diabetes and TV personalityother problems, best remembered for I've had different tests to check the series pressure inside my eye, and I'The Ascent of Manve come away with glasses I don'. This short bookt need to wear all the time, about 90 pages longbut certainly benefit from on holiday, is partly biographical sketch, partly or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – in fact largely and got wrong – an overview the simple, seemingly ageless test, of his major published worksvarious letters in various configurations that diminish in size, occupying about two-thirds of to prove to the bookrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. In the authorOf course, it's wordsnot ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people made to it is intended as a personal view of Bronowski as a philosopher, and the cultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402200</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean CarrollBall_Wonders|title=From Eternity to HereWonders Beyond Numbers: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory A Brief History of TimeAll Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=4.5

|summary=The Prologue sets out what this book is about. ItLike many people of a 's about ' ... the nature of time, the beginning of the universecertain age, and the underlying structure of physical reality.' OK? Bring on those questions. Yes, it's a weighty tome in terms of size and subject matter, but I would certainly describe the front cover as reader-friendly, so therefore should have broad appeal. I love fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the title of this book, lots virtues of thought has been put into it maths and it certainly grabbed my attention - science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and Iactually making these subjects ''m no scientistfun. The classic movie from the '' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, his latest book ... I also loved Carroll's language - 'The Elegant Universe' proves that he has lost none of his passion and 'a preposterous universe' These are phrases to make you stop and think. And I certainly didenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687955</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Rowland SmithYong_Contain|title=Driving with PlatoI Contain Multitudes: The Meaning of Life's Milestones|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Driving with Plato'' is a companion book to [[Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith|Breakfast with Socrates]], in which former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith took various elements of a 'typical' day the microbes within us and provided insight into what a collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines more interesting. Here, in the company of a similarly eclectic range grander view of writers and thinkers, he considers the key aspects of a life, from birth, through school and riding a bike, to your first kiss, losing your virginity, having a family before a mid-life crisis, leading to divorce, old age and death. Montaigne said that to philosophise was to learn how to die, and here Roland Smith ensures that we think about each stage leading up to that moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668305X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Stevenson|title=An Optimist's Tour of the FutureEd Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=In 1968, the film '2001 A Space Odyssey' had an optimistic view of the future The world you know is a lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all far more complex than we thought. Things designed to save us may kill us and things we think would soon be living inkill us may save us. In terms of technological advancement we're not quite there yet, even though that date has a decade since passed, so maybe it's time for a revised view of what is Welcome to come. Enter Mark Stevenson, a stand up comic slash scientist. It's perhaps not the most familiar of combinations, but take the best bits modern study of each and the result is this wonderful book that combines humour and fun with proper nitty, gritty, science stuffmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683564</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde|title=Sleights of Mind|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I have a passing interest in both magic and neuroscience. Not only am I ''quite'' the hit with the ladies, but I was also very keen Move on to read ''Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains''. Husband and wife team Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde work at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, and as a way of promoting their field of visual neuroscience, developed the [http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/ Illusion of the Year contest[Newest Reference Reviews]]. From this, they slipped into the world of magic, investigating, discussing and researching the neuroscience of magic with James Randi, Mac King, Teller (of Penn and...) and Johnny Thompson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683890</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Kean|title=The Disappearing Spoon|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=If the disappearing spoon of the title doesn't pique your interest, the subtitle is bound to get your juices flowing: ''and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements''. As far as popular science books goes, it's got all the umm... right elements (sorry, sorry, sorry). We're taken on a tour through the periodic table, hearing exciting tales of scientific discovery and marvel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Cohen|title=Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=The sub-title of Martin Cohen's latest book, Mind Games, promises, rather optimistically in my case I felt, '31 days to rediscover your brain'. It is rather presumptuous of him to assume that I had ''discovered'' it in the first place, but I appreciate his confidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444337092</amazonuk>}}