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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]]==Popular science==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alasdair Wickham1788360702|title=Charles, The Black Book of Modern MythsAlternative Prince: True Stories of the UnexplainedAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=34|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=A collection For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'Modern Myths' from around critically assesses the world, WickhamPrince's Black Book covers a wide range opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of phenomenon, from ghosts to liminal creatures, poltergeists to demonsthe scientific evidence. As an aficionado There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of all things paranormal, this should treatments which have been right up my street. Howeverno scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, I found myself struggling logical reasoning to get into it, and putting it down for something else on more than one occasionhis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533626</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain Badiou with Nicholas Truong0192779230|title=In Praise Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of LoveGerms|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary='Love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance Germs' seems to have become a state that catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has universal valuethe potential to make you ill. Starting out from something that is simply an encounterIn the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a trifle, you learn that you can experience clear and accessible introduction to the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identitygerms.' In other words, when eyes We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and worlds collide, the process of alteration that follows, is love. 'It is absolutely true that love can bend our bodies what they thought caused them and prompt how the sharpest tormentthinking has developed over time. Love, as we The vocabulary can observe day in and day out, is not be confusing but Thomas gives a long, quiet river.regular box headed ' But it is not designed to be that way - just as speak like a record is a lump scientist' which explains some of plastic before music has been carved on itthe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, love is just a transaction if all the chance has been ironed out of it - as perhaps by an Internet match site questionnaireprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687799</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil deGrasse Tysongareth_steel|title=Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate FrontierNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=3.54|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=A year or so ago there was I don't often begin my reviews with a big hoopla about being able to see the International Space Station pass overhead where I live, so I dutifully clambered on to the roof. And indeed warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it was actually very warming seems to know I was seeing something manmade, from 250 miles awaybe appropriate. As for the chance to see it, its speed Stories of 17,000mph means it orbits a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the planet every 92 and companion volume you've been looking for. As a half minutes. It gets about. But some of TV show the warmth of seeing itauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as well as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the achievements book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that led up to it, and the politics of NASAhe's five decades - written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some of the Newtonian physics involved in uncomfortable and distressing issues but it - doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are all in this volumeoccasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393082105</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Everett0241480442|title=LanguageHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: The Cultural ToolVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary=Daniel Everett previously worked as Emotionally, I am a missionary in far flung corners of the world– a fact that isn’t surprising given the number of references to faith that crop up over the pagesvegan. This new book Mentally, however, is about two much more appealing (to me) subjects: language and travelI am a vegan. If I read [[:Category:Bill Bryson|Bill BrysonHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] is a travel writer with an interest and was appalled by the way in linguistics, then Daniel Everett is a linguist with an interest which we treat animals in travelour search for (preferably cheap) food. It’s Practically, I am not quite the ‘read it by a pool’ sort of book that Bryson might release but is somewhere between vegan. It worked for a formalised every day read and a text book while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a big dollop perfect storm of informality stirred those events which you hope don't occur too often inyour lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. The travel stories – jaunts It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to Brazil, Mexico and beyond – are great, and while you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a rather pleasant way) sooner or later the linguistic point will become clearfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682673</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffrey MassonDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Dogs Never Lie About Love: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone ElseA Tattoo on my Brain

|genre=PetsAutobiography|summary=Readers come to books for strange reasons but I don't think that I've ever before picked up a book, looked at the title and being intrigued not by what was suggested but by how anyone could think differently. 'Dogs Never Lie About LoveAlzheimer' s is a statement of the obvious to me. I've lived with and around dogs for most of my life disease that slowly wears away your identity and I know that dogs are incapable sense of pretenceself. I've never met a dog I couldn't trust: if it doesn't like mehave been directly affected by this cruel disease, it will tell me so straight as have many. Your memories and personality worn awaylike a statue over time affected the elements. It will not attempt to trick me. I only wish seems as if nature wants that I could say the same about most of the humans I encounterfinal victory over you and your dignity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099740613</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Antonio Damasio|title=Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=What makes us, us? How This is awareness of one's own being created in the human mind? What what makes Daniel Gibbs''me'' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who got up this morning ''me'' that went to bed last night, was diagnosed with Alzheimers and the same has documented his journey in ''meA Tattoo on my Brain'' that got up on most mornings in the preceding forty-odd years? How is it that we see, remember and understand things, other humans and the world in general? And who is doing the understanding? How is it that we are conscious of our own experiences, and how is it that we are conscious of ourselves being conscious?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099498022</amazonuk>1108838936

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D Barrow0099551063|title=The Book Of UniversesWisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|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 'what if' musings for some time, but recently, scientists - specifically cosmologists - have been taking increasingly seriously.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539861</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicholas Mee|title=Higgs Force|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Nicholas Mee, was a Senior Wrangler at Trinity College, Cambridge and having taken his PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics by submitting his thesis Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits''Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Geometry'', he is uniquely qualified to explain the mysteries of the Higgs forceclaims Oxford University researcher. He is also a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Whereas other texts rapidly resort to references to erudite constructs like 'non-zero expectation values', 'zz Dibosons' and 'Bose-Einstein statistics', Dr Mee provides an accurate account of the Geneva experiments with the Large Hadron Collider, provides his readers with some insight into the character of eminent physicists, and furnishes a lucid account of current theories. Included is an exposition of the discovery of elements by Sir Humphry Davy to recent experiments to discover Peter Higg's elusive particle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718892755</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Ian Stewart|title=17 Equations That Changed The World|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=''17 Equations That Changed Until the Worldevents of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they'' takes re probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us through to understand more about the history nature of mathematics, from Pythagoras through Einsteinpsychopathy. It's theory of relativy and chaos theory. It highlights too easy to associate psychopathy with the most influently equationsYorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, clearly explains themSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, and establishes but the full ranges of breakthroughs they led totruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685311</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz (editors)1849767343|title=Queen of the SunCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I kept bees for 5 or 6 years The title and read many books about the subject, all format of the 'how this book might lead you to..think that it' s either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the science of… varietynumbers journey. But this book is a revelation as it genuinely tries to celebrate bees, capturing the real It isn'feelt: it' s a hymn of beekeeping - I wish I had come across this much soonerpraise to maths. For Siegel and Betz have collected a series of short articles, poems and essays not It's about the technique why maths is so wonderful and science of the craft, but about the purpose and 'soul' behind how you meet itin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570341</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith SkeneB08B39QNRH|title=Escape from Bubbleworld|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Before you stifle the inward groan that comes from the thought of another book assaulting population growth, western greed and reckless exploitation of the environment, take time to read the first chapter The Curious History of Keith SkeneWriter's 'Escape to Bubbleworld'. Because this is as entertaining and amusing book as you are likely to read on the subject, while at the same time taking us into to some deep science and fascinating exploration of what turns out to be less certain certainties. For Skene’s writing has two attributes which I can almost guarantee will keep even the nonCramp: Solving an age-scientific reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956250122</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewold problem|author=David Malouf|title=The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern WorldMichael Pritchard

|summary=There's something quite uplifting about the physical brevity of David Malouf's 'The Happy Life' which Society is subtitled based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'The Search for Contentment in the Modern World'. It suggests that it is easy to find, when of course, the whole point of the book is that despite, or perhaps because of, scientific and technological advances that have taken away many of the causes of true unhappiness in the world, 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 section, and the typeface is large. It is, by any reckoning a slim offering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187115</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Marcus Chown|title=Solar System|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=With beautiful photographs I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the wonders word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the solar system, this is history of a gorgeous coffee table book problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy. Marcus Chown's descriptions are insome three-hundred-depth enough to warrant considered years seemed liked excellent background readingand so it proved, but if you're after a simple with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and casual flick through, you'll still find plenty to appealthe changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571277713</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Forsyth1776572858|title=The EtymologiconHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=TriviaHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I like wordsasked how babies were made. Words are awesome My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. End A couple of. But days later I also like trivia. was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I like knowing things was told that perhaps other it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people don’ttalked about''. I ''knew'' more, and helpfully passing on this knowledge to thembut was little ''wiser''. So a book about word-related trivia is just a win-win Thankfully, and this one is so good I think we’ll times have to call it a win-win-winchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon BarnesDanny Dorling|title=Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: an introduction to birdsongSlowdown

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=One of my best-ever auditory memories is waking up We are living in a tent to a dawn chorustime of rapid change, sung in the middle of Ireland in springand we're worried about it. It was a high-decibel effort Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and seemed to involve hundreds of birdsprobably good for us. I'm ashamed We are designed to say that I couldnworry and with the current state of what we't begin to identify re doing in the multitude of species I heard that morning. So I suppose I chose this book expecting it world we have much to be a field guide that could at long last help me get a handle on birdsongworried about. But However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it isnsets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't yet another handbookbe as worried as we are, but a much more interesting book than or in some cases thatwe're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, which I thought would make a great present for a new birdwatcherthings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595473</amazonuk>0300243405

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallLangford_Emily|title=PredatorsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Many readers would probably know that on the simple Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you 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 humans they helped to dispatchthe list were even numbers, mosquitoes may be but the most deadly animals everother half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. But did you know that if you take into account (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the success rate odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of huntsthe even numbers, diversity and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Leith1910593508|title=You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to ObamaApollo|rating=4.5|genreauthor=Popular Science|summary=Over the years I've trained myself (fairly successfully) not to judge a book by its cover. I've added 'not judging a book by its title' to the training, but what do you do when your first impressions of a book - the title ''and'' the cover - scream 'trivia'? WellMatt Fitch, I put this one to one side on the basis that it really wasn't likely to be a book which would interest me. Picking it up and looking at the contents was almost accidental - Chris Baker and then I discovered that this book is a gold mine.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683157</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gordon Grice|title=The Book of Deadly AnimalsMike Collins|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the other. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, Moon landings and that the real animal knew it was second best to humans, having been saved in passion for the Arksubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and respected our dominion over themMike Collins. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. But where This 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 toddler's honey-dripping hand (true story - what the bear thought we know well and because of this, the taste of honeyed fingers authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we don't know) is just the same can fill in reverse - humans behaving as only humans can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Byrne and Tom Cassidy|title=How to Save the World with Salad Dressing|rating=3|genre=Popular Science|summary=The world is under threat from a manic Bond-type baddieblanks. You, my friendly reader, These shortcuts are the only person with downside to the smarts enough to save itbook. YouIf you'd better not be one ve ever read a comic book adaptation of my less intelligent friends, because according to this book one needs a lot of physics-inclined lateral thinking to carry out film you will be familiar with the dangerous tasks ahead. You'll need to know about gravity slight feeling that there are scenes missing and other forces, buoyancy, friction, acceleration and more to get through the puzzles herethat dialogue has been trimmed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688552</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Hayden|title=You Kant Make it Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Greatest Philosophers|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In You Kant Make it Up, journalist and philosopher Gary Hayden takes his readers through some of the biggest and most important ideas right from the very beginnings of philosophical thought up to the philosophy of the modern day. He gives This is a brief explanation graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long 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 thinkerstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688455</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen H Segal1999308719|title=Geek WisdomLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=I am by no means a fully fledged geek, but on the Big Bang scale For many years now I'm probably more of a Leonard than a Penny. ve (half) joked that I was weaned on ''Star Trek '', chose ''Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as my reading aloud piece for a Year 7 exam, intended to live forever and think it would be more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Con. At the same time, there are gaping holes in my knowledge. My first celeb crush might have been ''Blake’s 7’s'' Villa but I've never seen a ''Batman'' film, never read a comic book, never quite understood what all the ''Star Wars'' fuss was about. If Sci Fi is a religion, then this is the book that can fill me in one the storiesso far, the parables, the rules, as it were, of geekdomwas working out OK. I had to have it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745277</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mick O'Hare|title=Why Are Orangutans Orange?|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Another year Time has passed, though and once again wealthough I'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]], [[Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare|Polar Bears]], [[How To Make A Tornado by Mick O'Hare|Tornadoes]], [[Why Can't Elephants Jump? 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 Words|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Crystal is m a god when it comes to language. I’ve known that since I was quoting him during English A Level, since my university studies, since my TEFL days when students ask 'Why?' great deal fitter and you need an answer other healthier than 'Because'. This is his new book, but you don’t need most people of my age there were a degree in linguistics to find it fascinating, and in addition to the intriguing revelations and chummy writing style, it looks just lovely and would make a fab Christmas presentfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684277</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Niall McCrae|title=The Moon and Madness|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=A book entitled ''The Moon and Madness'' has the potential It was time to be look for a pile of New Age hokum. This learned new approach and academic treatise by Niall McCrae is very far from hokumas so often happens, and there is not a whiff of New Age hanging over it. We probably all have an old folklore image in our minds of lunatics in the asylum howling at reviewing gods brought me the full moonbook I needed. Of course, the very word 'lunatic' has its origins in the moon. McCrae tries to separate myth and fact in this fascinating book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402146</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John L Locke|title=Duels and DuetsLive Forever Manual: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Locke's subtitle ''Why Men , ethics and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you to think that this is just another selfcompanies behind the new anti-help ageing treatments''Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'' tome. It's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – that men and women do not communicate very well because of some fundamental difference in their respective approach to verbal expression – seemed like the New York City University Professor of Linguistics sets out answer to explain WHY that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521887135</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steven Connor|title=Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=...In which our author considers the smaller, less noticeable items in our lives. He finds such objects as sticky tape, combs and keys magical, because "we can do whatever we like to things, but magical things are things that we allow and expect to do things back to us. Magical things all do more, and mean my problems - only you get so much more than they might be supposed tojust 101 tips." Principally these are the little flotsam that wash up on our desks, the handy things we keep in our pockets and about our person, and never think about - wave about, flick about, fiddle with, but never think about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682703</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Brooks1847941834|title=Free RadicalsAtomic Habits|author=James Clear

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=We often have an image of scientists as quietly plodding away, with small breakthrough after small breakthrough. When the big breakthroughs come, they downplay things, and insist upon logical and level-headed caution. It's all very mild-mannered and polite. ...Or is it? The history of science is splattered with radicals, whoI'll do anything for success. There ve said this before but 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 the pursuit of truthsome books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and those who just plain go about things their own way, regardless of what anyone else says.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684056</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Wheen|title=Dot-Dash To Dot.Com|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=You know exactly what you're getting when some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read the summary of Andrew Wheen's ''Dot-Dash To Dot.Comthem, like, right now! ''. Atomic Habits''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 technologylast category. It serves as a primer for anyone with an interest or need to know about telecommunications.|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 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 of writers and thinkers, he considers the key aspects of a life, from birth, through school microbes within us 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 Future|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=In 1968, the film '2001 A Space Odyssey' had an optimistic view of the future we would soon be living in. 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 grander view of what is 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 of each and the result is this wonderful book that combines humour and fun with proper nitty, gritty, science stuff.|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 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]. 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>}} {{newreviewlife|author=Sam Kean|title=The Disappearing SpoonEd Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=If the disappearing spoon of the title doesn't pique your interest, the subtitle The world you know 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''a lie. As far There is no such thing as popular science books goes, it's got good or bad microbes. Sickness and health are all the ummfar more complex than we thought.Things designed to save us may kill us and things we think would kill us may save us.. right elements (sorry, sorry, sorry). We're taken on a tour through Welcome to the periodic table, hearing exciting tales modern study of scientific discovery and marvelmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520261</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Martin Cohen|title=Mind Games: 31 Days Move on 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>}}[[Newest Reference Reviews]]