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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Marianne Taylor1787333175|title= I Used To Know That: General Science|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary= This book got off to the right start in my mind because it comes in 3 key sections, each for one of You Don'my' sciences without a nod t Have to any of the other '-ologies' (or ''pseudo sciences'' as they were often called at school). Marketed as ''stuff you forgot from school'', this is a book from the same series that has already spawned [[I Used be Mad to Know That: History by Emma Marriott ]], [[I Used to Know That: Maths by Chris Waring]] and [[I Should Know That - Great Britain by Emma Marriott]] among others. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243447X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWork Here|author=Joel Levy|title=Why We Do the Things We Do: Psychology in a NutshellBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5
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|summary=Chalk and cheese; your left hand and your right; philosophy and psychology. All pairs have something closely resembling yet very different from the otherI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, whether through colour and crumbliness, or physical form, or from being studies a glorious mixture of insight into the mind. The only thing is, one pair is alone. Your two hands formed at workings of the same time, whereas chalk is the olderNHS, humour and philosophy predates psychologyautobiography. The two were ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same thing until recently, elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and we can perhaps point at a William James as the father work of the splita psychiatrist. I make this point because when I reviewed did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this volume's [[Why We Think setting but the Things we Think: Philosophy in laughter is directed at a situation rather than a Nutshell by Alain Stephen|sister book]] I found no timeline or history evident. Here, however, we do get one – travelling quickly from the ideas of idiocy-cum-possession in our early history, through phrenology person and mesmerism to the birth of psychology. The fact that we then immediately look at free will in much the same terms as the philosophers does shows how common the disciplines still are – it is always delivered with empathy and how vital to our understanding of ourselves both topics remain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434127</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain Stephen1788360702|title=Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Way back whenCharles, when I started back on adult education having finished my university life (I know, it's hard to believe sometimes, but bear with me) I was asked if I was going to do a philosophy A-level. No, I said – there was no point in studying something nobody can agree about. The introduction to this book raises much the same point – the solution to philosophical questions and study is only ever going to be more questions. It says that Kant thought the study of thought, ''or, more precisely, how ideas are formed'' was the highest science, although that sounds like the psychology that I did indeed study. Still, study it many people do do – and probably a far greater number would wish to read around it and find out what it might be like to sound as if you have studied it – hence books like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434135</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAlternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Will Cohu|title=Out of the Woods: the armchair guide to treesEdzard Ernst
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|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=Most people probably accept trees as, wellFor over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''treesCharles, The Alternative Prince''. Theycritically assesses the Prince're there s opinions, beliefs and they're greenaims against the background of the scientific evidence. Some There are lighter, some darker. Some are taller few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and other go for width, but as for telling them apart there were few that I could identify until recently. I knew that the big tree at his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the bottom reputation of next door's garden is a sycamore, but only because I heard someone say 'that sycamore man who is going proud of his refusal to cause problems with the drains of the flats at the back'. I was OK on white horse chestnuts too, but only when the kids were collecting conkersapply evidence-based, so I was rather pleased when Will Cohu's book landed on my desk and I opened it expecting logical reasoning to find lots of pictures with all the details which I probably wouldn't rememberhis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722354</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eugenia Cheng0192779230|title=Cakes, Custard and Category TheoryVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Easy recipes for understanding complex mathsThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Eugenia Cheng is 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a professor of maths very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a lover clear and accessible introduction to the world of cakegerms. If you’re wondering We get an informed look at how those two things could ever intersect, it’s quite easypeople originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. And the result, the middle The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the Venn diagram, if trickiest concepts and you will'll soon be familiar with bacteria, is this book which makes maths funfungi, meaningful protists and relatively easy to digest. Much like her recipesviruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00TA8SIV6</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jen Green and Wesley Robinsgareth_steel|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=54|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Oceans in 30 Seconds I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the latest book in companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the innovative series from Ivy Pressauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, which aims to give an informative as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and entertaining overview of a given subject in bite-sized chunks. Each given subject has its own twoafter reading -page spread, I agree with a concise description on the left, covering all of the main points, him. He says that he's written it to inform and a colourful illustration on the right hand pageprovoke thought, complete particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with extra snippets of information. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum upsome uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, which further condenses the main idea of the chapter into a single sentencealthough there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Stewart0241480442|title=Professor Stewart’s Incredible NumbersHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien
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|genre=Popular ScienceCookery|summary= Incredible Numbers starts off easily enoughEmotionally, with I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a really interesting look at numbers as seen Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the earliest peopleway in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, before moving on I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a brief explanation perfect storm of natural numbers, rational numbers, negative numbers and complex and prime numbersthose events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. Subsequent chapters revisit old friends such It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as Pythagoras’s theorem, the Fibonacci cube, negative numbers, pi and quadratic equations, and other lesser known concepts such good as kissing numbers, imaginary numbers and anything plundered from the winsomelyanimal kingdom -named Sausage Conjectureit was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254109</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy MorinDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoA Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as Alzheimer's is a psychologist disease that slowly wears away your identity and therapist her husband died suddenly, but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things which she must ''not'' do. She knew that she must not develop a sense of entitlementself. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, feel resentment or succumb to self-pityas have many. That was ten years ago: since then Morin has remarried Your memories and worked with numerous patients using personality worn away like a statue over time affected the principles which she applied to herselfelements. She's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and developed strategies to combat themyour dignity. But the best thing which she This is what makes clear Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is that mental strength is not about acting tough - for instance, if youa neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''ve suffered a bereavement, you need to grieve - itA Tattoo on my Brain's about having the mental wherewithal to overcome life's challenges.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>1108838936
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William Davis0099551063|title=Wheat BellyThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: The effortless health Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and weight-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialSerial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton
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|summary=Post apocaplyptic depictions of earth are common place in Science Fiction - the wonderful (if hugely depressing) ''The Road'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' by Cormac McCarthy, The claims Oxford University researcher.''MaddAdam Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the nature of psychopathy. It' trilogy by Margaret Atwood (although I believe Ms Atwood would be rather rankled s too easy to hear her books described as 'Science Fiction')associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, and but the recent ''Station Eleven'' by Emily St. John Mandel are just truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a small drop in the very deep ocean of post apocalyptic booksgood thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575833</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edzard Ernst1849767343|title=A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding TroubleCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
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|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Professor Edzard Ernst was born in Germany not long after the end The title and format of World War II and grew up with guilt this book might lead you to think that it's either about what had happened in the years before he was born as well as an insatiable curiosity responsibility - with the two not being entirely entirely unconnected. He also developed an attitude of speaking his mind or it's a basic 1- as an early challenge to his step2-father about the death of six million Jews in the course of 3 book for those just starting out on the war provednumbers journey. In his teens he wasn It isn't determined to become : it's a doctor - he had a hankering hymn of praise to be a musician - despite the fact that it was the family business, maths. It's about why maths is so to speak, but came round to the idea wonderful and practiced in various countries before settling how you meet it in Exeter as Professor of Complementary Medicine at the universityeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407776</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem
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|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''.
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 word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the history of a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=New Scientist1776572858|title=Question Everything: 132 science questions - How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and their unexpected answersDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=For years now the ''New Scientist'' magazine has had a column whereby people submit questions they want the answer to, and it's up to correspondents from all walks of life to submit the answer and explain the solution. It's nothing new – the Guardian had it for more than sixty years, then the Daily Mail probably had Britain's most popular variant, what with it being daily, but none since I asked how babies were purely science-based such as that under perusalmade. ItMy mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she's a simple format for d get me a book – not only does about it create . A couple of days later I was handed a fun kick-back at pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the close of an at-times hard-going science readbasics, 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 generates a book full of fun and intriguing Q&As almost every year''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Chances are thatI ''knew'' more, by relying on the interests of their audience, the editors have allowed themselves to publish books that will appeal to many people who have never looked at their weekly edition – certainly they have been incredibly popular, and massively boosted the magazinebut was little ''wiser''s public recognition. And this volume will not be any differentThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251649</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaDanny Dorling|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfSlowdown
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|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Weare living in a time of rapid change, and we're screwedworried about it. Wherever we lookDorling tells us that the latter is normal, whatever natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we think of 're doingin the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, there is a reason it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be doing itas worried as we are, and people to back or in some cases that reason up with scientific datawe're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eatBecause mostly, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worsethings are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disastersIn fact, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists the rate of change in many things is slowing down and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink direction of an eyechange will in some cases go into reverse. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical MysteriesLangford_Emily|author=Ian Stewart|rating=3.5|genretitle=Popular Science|summary=Ah, those pesky number things. Not just [[RogersonEmily's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World by Barnaby Rogerson|Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World]] and how we have related to certain ones, but how they all relate to each other, and have provided mathematical scientists with thousands upon thousands of hours of thinking time. Just one problem in these pages has ended with not so much a checkable proof, but a third more data again than the entire Wikipedia project. Within this book are numbers far too big you would not even manage to write them out given the entire lifespan of the universe (and ones bigger than that) and problems wherein one must define as many integers as possible using merely 1s and mathematical symbols.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683475</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Edge of the Sky|author=Roberto TrottaJoss Langford
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|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Emily found words ''Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will douseful'', but counting was what she loved best. Apparently thatObviously, you can count anything and there's advice no limit to budding journalists and writershow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and I do try to follow the English translation of it, if not completely successfullybegan counting in twos. Someone who seems to have no trouble whatsoever in agreeing with the dictum is Roberto TrottaShe knew all about odd and even numbers. This book is his survey Then she began counting in threes: half of current astrophysics and cosmological sciencethe list were even numbers, but one that has to convey everything the other half was odd and it intends to by using only the most common thousand words was this list of the English languageodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. So there is no Big Bang (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as such, planets have though they ought to be called Crazy Stars – and a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it's soon evident you can't even describe the book with the word thousand either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0465044719</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Inventions in 30 SecondsApollo|author=Dr Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike GoldsmithCollins
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|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=My son This incredible graphic novel is incredibly curious a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems a story we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the minute I have found blanks. These shortcuts are the answer only downside to one the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of his questions, another a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has formulated inside his head to replace itbeen trimmed. I was delighted then, when ''Inventions in 30 Seconds'' arrived for me to review, This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as I saw it as a dose of much-needed respite from my endless researchlong and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=The Human Body in 30 SecondsLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Anna ClaybourneAdrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Our body is an amazing machineFor many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, capable it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of performing my age there were a myriad few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of tasks simultaneouslybalance. Even when we are sleeping, our body is busy processing information, pumping blood, regulating temperature It was time to look for a new approach and filtering waste. When we are hurtas so often happens, a host of repair systems jump into operation to sort out the damagereviewing gods brought me the book I needed. When we are invaded by a foreign body ''Live Forever Manual: Science, our immune system works to repel ethics and companies behind the invaders. We are constantly making new discoveries about anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the wonderful way that our body worksanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Smith1847941834|title=Standard DeviationsAtomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Over the years I've regularly been infuriated by the way said this before but there are some books that seemingly intelligent people abuse statistics - or perhaps misuse them deliberately to deceive us. Politiciansyou seek out, journalists, academics all seem to fall into the trap with alarming regularity some books that you stumble across and I was tempted some books that drop into reading this book by a quote from Ronald Coase (Nobel Prize-winning Economist) that 'If your life because you torture data long enoughreally MUST read them, it will confesslike, right now! ''Atomic Habits''. The author, Dr Gary Smith, taught at Yale for seven years and is now a professor at Pomona College in Californiathe last category. His book is aimed at the layman rather than the academic - does it hit the mark?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649140</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Mind ChangeBlue Planet II|author=Susan GreenfieldJames Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=34.5|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The year is 2014You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. The digital age is upon us and Greenfield seeks That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to explore what the impact cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of its technologies might be. Heralding from a numbered sequel, and never in the discipline world of neurosciencenon-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, Greenfield’s casesay, in shortAlaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, is that why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the brain may be changing to meet prestige, the demands of energy and the digital twentyheft to demand follow-first centuryups. Online mass-player gamesAnd after five years in the making, digitally equipped classrooms, electronic readers and search-engines each challenge how the mind BBC's Blue Planet series has traditionally socialised and learneddelivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044308</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1783099593|title=The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest MysterySpeaking Up|author=George JohnsonAllyson Jule
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|summary=George Johnson, 'Speaking Up' has a popular science writer more comfortable fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in the fields of physics and cosmologymedia, started his journey into cancer when his wifeeducation, Nancyreligion, was diagnosed with a rare uterine varietythe workplace and personal relationships. He took it as Author Allyson Jule calls on an opportunity not just for personal soulencyclopedic body of research from the mid-searching (why her? why now?)twentieth century to the present day. Reading it, but also for a wide-ranging odyssey into current research about what causes cancer and how long it we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with usequal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556057</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Campbell_Astra|title=Psy-QAd Astra: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligenceAn illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Ben AmbridgeDallas Campbell|rating=4.5
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|summary=So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you''Psy-Q'' is a fun and interactive slice of 'Pop-Science' which delves into various psychology topics, with d better study the aim whole history of entertaining and enlightening the reader and debunking human space flight to get up to speed. That could take a few myths along the way. Most of the chapters are while… if only there was a couple of pages long and include quizzes, personality profiles, experiments, optical illusions and the odd cheesy joke thrown in handy guide that could condense it all down for good measureyou. The result is a readable, accessible and un-putdownable Enter Dallas Campbell with this book that I managed : An illustrated guide to devour in an entire afternoonleaving the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252106</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise|author=Michael Brooks|rating=5|genre=Popular Science |summary=Eleven Discoveries are introduced and explored in Michael Brooks’ At the Edge of Uncertainty, spanning all from the expansion of epigenetics, the possibility of creating a hypercomputer, and the unveiling of the true nature of the universe. Some of the hypotheses currently being investigated by our contemporary scientific community are baffling enough in themselves: Is our universe a hologram of an extra-dimensional universe? Are the mechanisms governing photosynthesis and human olfaction in fact one and the same? Just how well-established are animal personalities and cultures, if such exist? Is a human ‘will to live’ something which can be attributed to discernible biological responses and systems? Is time an illusion?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251274</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAdrian_Sock|title=Earth in 30 SecondsSock (Object Lessons)|author=Anita GaneriKim Adrian|rating=4|genre=children's Non-Fiction|summary=As a former cataloguer of children’s books there are names that are synonymous with juvenile non-fiction, in my time the author Anita Ganeri has graced my work table 112 times3. She is a prolific author and her legacy continues in the form of ‘Earth in 30 Seconds’, part of a series of books for 7-11 year olds that explore scientific principles in easy bite size pieces.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401091</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Lazarus Effect|author=Sam Parnia|rating=45
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|summary=As part The subject of this book has been around for several millennia, and yet my jobpartner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It's something I assess junior doctors who want use for about 200 days of every year, at a guess (well, I have my self-diagnosed over-active eccrine glands and other people to specialise in General Practice think about) – which clearly puts me at the opposite end of their two foundation years, and this assessment takes the form of role plays where they play a doctor and respond scale to cues from an actor playing a patient/relative/staff member while I take notes and score them against competencies. Last year one well-known mass-murderer of the scenarios included explaining DNAR (do not attempt resuscitation) to a ‘relative’ and one rather memorable candidate said 'It doesn’t mean we let your mother diewomen, but if she does dieTed Bundy, we won’t bring her back who was into stealing credit cards to life the way we might another patient'fund his desire of having a fresh pair every single day. The answer did not score well on what I was assessing (communication skills) but it stuck with me and I still tell it as a tale from time to timeOn which subject, along with the story amount of them we create every year could stack to the patient who tripped freaking moon and fell on more. Some idiots buy more than six pairs ayear, ermapparently, personal massage device, had to have it surgically removed…and then asked for it backwhich is plain stupid. It’s relevant hereI'm talking, thoughas you can tell, because what that wannabe GP was saying is that he had of the power to bring people back from the dead. And that’s what this book is all abouthumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043077</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack CohenGermano_Eye|title=The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day Eye Chart (Science of Discworld 4Object Lessons)|author=William Germano
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|summary=It''Much of what passes for invasion biology is poorly supported hype.'' So says our authors happened to me, and like as not it has or will happen to you can easily fall into agreeing , too. I mean the receipt of certain little numerical results, with him after reading his book. In much a positive or negative before them to prove the same way 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 other problems, I'Daily Mailve had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, and I've come away with glasses I don' et al have their own attitudes t need to immigrants wear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and got wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the human kindrelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, so it would appear do many 's not ageless, but the scientific progress that led to it, the changes other people have similar notions about immigrant species. And made to it, and the end results might be much more damagingcultural impact it's had are all on these eye-opening small pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251746</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexandra Witze and Jeff KanipeBall_Wonders|title=Island on FireWonders Beyond Numbers: The extraordinary story A Brief History of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe darkAll Things Mathematical|author=Johnny Ball|rating=45
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|summary=I'm fascinated by volcanoes, by their uncontrollability and potential to disrupt way beyond their immediate environment and for years to come, but I've always struggled to find books which were accessible to someone without specialist knowledge - or at least more behind them than my very basic qualifications. Like many people my attention was drawn to Iceland when Eyjafjallajokull erupted in the spring of 2010a ''certain age, not because '' I have fond memories of tuning in to watch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the plight virtues of the Icelanders maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and their livestock, but because of the disruption it caused over much of Europe, Iactually making these subjects ''m afraidfun. I began to look at other volcanoes in Iceland - particularly Katla'' Although decades have passed since those classic TV shows, reputed historically to erupt in conjunction with Eyjafjallajokull. It's likely his latest book proves that a full-scale eruption he has lost none of Katla would cause even more disruption than its little sister - his passion and then I started to look back at other eruptions in Iceland. The one which few people seem to know about is Laki - which might have been one of the triggers of the French Revolutionenthusiasm for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250049</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Yong_Contain|title=Jake's BonesI Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life|author=Jake McGowan-LoweEd Yong
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=My oldest son has wanted to be The world you know is a palaeontologist since he was three lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and both boys health are fascinated by how things work. Last year my youngest saw some scientific anatomy drawings and begged for all far more, so I began looking for children's books on skeletons, and anatomycomplex than we thought. There are very few available Things designed to save us may kill us and this looked the best by far, I spent two days searching not only British but American booksellers before noticing that the book had not been released yet - so sadly things we were forced think would kill us may save us. Welcome to wait. It was worth waiting for though, this book is truly one the modern study of a kindmicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783250259</amazonuk>
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