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- Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb …appening from at least two indicators. One was the excitement I felt while reading, the compulsion to read faster and turn pages faster -- the eight or so pa… …ic he and his family could be granted such visas outside the Italian quota list. The ruse of a lecture series was devised to evade a drastic penalty: citi…4 KB (758 words) - 01:17, 15 April 2009
- Gleick: Isaac Newton This was certainly not a detailed, laundry-list sort of biography, nor was it a scientific biography as such. It was more … … his contemporaries were thinking -- it was effective narrative. I enjoyed reading the book, and I came away with a much deeper appreciation of Newton than o…2 KB (352 words) - 00:15, 15 April 2009
- Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker I read Dawkins' book immediately before reading Daniel C. Dennett's ''[[Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea| Darwin's Dangero… …ve one other minor complaint about Dawkins, a feeling that I once noted in reading Stephen Jay Gould: that his understanding of mathematics was not adequate …5 KB (789 words) - 21:35, 25 May 2009
- Ball: Bright Earth …change, sometimes significantly, over time. It would be a grave mistake in reading older writing about color to assume that one understands the meanings of e… …icely recounted in this book, but the big story is much bigger than just a list of names. Colors and color perception and pigments and commerce and religi…11 KB (1801 words) - 23:47, 14 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2008 … help us help other science-book readers by sharing their own science-book reading experiences. …eel free to accept the challenge any time during 2008. Decide on your book list at the beginning or be more spontaneous and choose titles as you go. If yo…14 KB (2044 words) - 04:52, 9 January 2009
- Raymo: Walking Zero …ridian''. New York : Walker & Company, 2006. 194 pages, index and "Further Reading". …d, ideas that shaped the way we think about our place in the universe. The list of chapter titles gives a good sense of his argument:6 KB (996 words) - 01:16, 15 April 2009
- Watson: Ideas …ideas in the web of history, and how to keep it interesting and worthwhile reading from the beginning until the end of the book. Watson meets those expectati… …nections to think about along the way, so one doesn't want to feel rushed. Reading ''Ideas'' is more akin to taking an older, scenic highway to a destination…17 KB (2936 words) - 01:41, 15 April 2009
- Lembke: Despicable Species …oe Nutt; appendix : "The Despicable Ratings"; notes, "For the Bookworm : A Reading Guide"; no index. …quaintances to name their favorite worst species. She decided to compile a list (see the appendix in the book) and then write about the most despicable, d…8 KB (1304 words) - 00:42, 15 April 2009
- Ridley: The Red Queen (2) …o, and it impressed me so much ''The Red Queen'' had been on my to-be-read list ever since. In fact, I even gave a copy of it to my uber-science sister (… …tick around and help raise their offspring as well, but '''I still enjoyed reading Ridley’s exploration of the theory.'''15 KB (2521 words) - 01:20, 15 April 2009
- Aczel: The Mystery of the Aleph …book more accurately than seems possible. I worried a bit before I started reading that reference to "mystery" and "Kabbalah" might signal more mysticism tha… …ood without proof and mathematician David Hilbert put it on his celebrated list of great outstanding problems in mathematics. In 1939 Kurt Gödel, fam…5 KB (746 words) - 23:38, 14 April 2009
- Segre: Faust in Copenhagen …w and shiny at the library, and because it reminded me of how much I enjoy reading about physics. …o that we understand the skit and all the in-jokes by the time we are done reading. When I laughed heartily at an in-joke half way through the book, I sudden…5 KB (887 words) - 01:27, 15 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2009 …and help potential readers find books that they will enjoy and profit from reading, by publishing our [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]], which are written … …ke a very broad view of what makes for interesting and informative science reading.30 KB (4321 words) - 03:04, 12 July 2010
- Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk …breezy. Important ideas often take time to digest; there's no harm in slow reading. …ed, it was the cheap bar brand, Smirnoff, that came out at the top of the list. Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments…13 KB (2065 words) - 00:54, 15 April 2009
- Science Book Challenge …hen help potential readers find books that they will enjoy and profit from reading, by publishing our [[:Category:Book Notes|Science Book Notes]], which are … …ke a very broad view of what makes for interesting and informative science reading.6 KB (882 words) - 22:26, 25 February 2013
- Lightman: A Sense of the Mysterious (2) Lightman's book went on my To-Be-Read list that very day -- and I've just now (in 2009!) read it. …rd Feynman (1997). So it is one step forward and two steps back on the TBR list ....3 KB (579 words) - 03:50, 15 June 2009
- Blum: Ghost Hunters I discovered by reading the jacket that Blum won the Pulitzer Prize, for her book ''The Monkey War… …ligent, fascinating, ''Ghost Hunters'' is easily going to be on my top ten list this year. And considering it’s the 180th book I’ve read, that’s say…7 KB (1226 words) - 21:19, 15 July 2009
- Science Book Challenge 2010 … to help potential readers find books that they will enjoy and profit from reading. That's why we publish our [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]], which are … …ke a very broad view of what makes for interesting and informative science reading, looking for perspectives on science as part of culture and history.19 KB (2780 words) - 01:41, 4 February 2011
- Marion: Genetic Rounds Saw it on the library's new book list online. Decided to reserve it because I am interested in medical related b… …o solve a puzzle (see quote below for a description of geneticist). Before reading this book, I have some idea what geneticists do, but this book really open…6 KB (987 words) - 03:28, 1 April 2010
- Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks …online forum. It sounded interesting enough that I put it on my to-be-read list. Thought I'd read it sometime later as I have a big piles of books to read… * I learned a lot from this book -- I guess that's why I like reading non-fiction because I get to learn about things I normally won't. While I …19 KB (3180 words) - 03:36, 2 June 2010
- Science Book Challenge 2011 … want to help potential readers find books they will enjoy and profit from reading; that's why we publish our [[:Category:Book Notes|Book Notes]], which are … …ke a very broad view of what makes for interesting and informative science reading, looking for perspectives on science as part of culture and history.12 KB (1745 words) - 02:22, 21 October 2011
