The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Category: Popular Science
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Gam ...Show more
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything by Jordan Ellenberg
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Category: Popular Science
How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does Covid-19 spread? How do computers teach themselves chess, and why is chess easier for them than analyzing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry. Seriou ...Show more
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
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Category: Popular Science
We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientists The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bul ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
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At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies, from the malicious to the muddled, the self-deluding ...Show more
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu; Ken Liu (Translator)
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Three Body Trilogy Ser.
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!"War of the Worlds for the 21st century." -Wall Street JournalThe Three-Body Problemis the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop o ...Show more
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
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This is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces in the universe together, yet never found it. Some of the greatest minds in physics took up the search, from ...Show more
Lavoisier in the Year One : Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution by Madison Smartt Bell
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Great Discoveries Ser.
Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing a new terminology. Madison Smartt Bell's enthralling narrative reads like a race, as the circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation - a considerable fortune and social connect ...Show more
Science! (DK Knowledge Encyclopedia)
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Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possi ...Show more
Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why It Doesn't Have To by Margee Kerr
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Category: Popular Science
Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience -- you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you describe it? By the number of broken bones or stitches? The cause -- the crowning baby, the sharp knife, the straying lover? What does a 7 on a pain scale of 1 to 10 even mean?Pain is complicated. ...Show more
Superheavy - Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman
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Category: Popular Science
Shortlisted for the 2020 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Creating an element is no easy feat. It's the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haystack, hoping the bullet and needle somehow fuse together, then catching it in less than a thousand ...Show more
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science by Anna Reser, Leila McNeill
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Category: Popular Science
From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science.In the anci ...Show more