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Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Rebecca Wragg Sykes - Kindred: Neanderthal life, love, death and art

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One of the least interesting things about Neanderthal's is why they vanished. This is ironic because almost from the time when the first...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Bill McGuire - The Fate of the World: A history & future of the climate crisis

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Bill McGuire is a respected geologist and climate scientist. His new book presents climate science, viewed through the prism of historical g...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Ian Angus - Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism's Assault on the Earth

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Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science. Anyone who has read a small part of his work will be str...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Daniel Oberhaus - Extraterrestrial Languages

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In some ways this book's title is a misnomer. There are no extraterrestrial languages. Or at least none that we yet know of. But Daniel ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Riley Black - The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs

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Riley Black's The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs is a remarkable book that places dinosaurs in their historical and ecological conte...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

M.V.Ramana - Nuclear is Not the Solution: The folly of atomic power in the age of climate change

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A few years ago I had the arduous task of reviewing Bill Gates' book on dealing with climate change. I noted that Gates' was obsess...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Adam Higginbotham - Challenger: A true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space

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The first time I went to the United States in the very early 1990s, when I told anyone I was a space and astronomy enthusiast, everyone want...
Sunday, August 03, 2025

Kai Bird & Martin J Sherwin - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Like many others I bought American Prometheus after watching the 2023 film Oppenheimer . By any judgement, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subje...
Sunday, May 04, 2025

Margaret Mead – Coming of Age in Samoa

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Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most well-known books of anthropology ever written. Mead was in her 20s when she took t...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Andrew Chaikin - A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

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Despite developments and commitments from various space agencies to return humans to the moon, over fifty years after the first moon landing...
Sunday, December 01, 2024

John Gribbin - The Universe: A Biography

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John Gribbin is one of the longest, and best regarded, popularisers of science. His multiple books have spanned biological subjects and scie...