Just ordered a few books from Amazon. Light summer reading. Occurred to me that others might be interested, so here's the list. Since I haven't even received them yet, I can't promise they'll be good, but they all seem intriguing...
• Marcus Du Sautoy – Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature
• Mary Roach – Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
• Clay Shirky – Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
• Susan Jacoby – The Age of American Unreason
• John Brockman, ed. – Science at the Edge: Conversations with the Leading Scientific Thinkers of Today
• Marvin Minsky – The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
• Frank Wilczek – Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
• Laurent Schwartz – Cancer: Between Glycolysis and Physical Constraint
• Lauren Pecorino – Molecular Biology of Cancer: Mechanisms, Targets, and Therapeutics
Any comments or suggestions?
You are light on evolution. I would add "Your Inner Fish" by Neil Shubin.
ReplyDeleteBrian Heard.
You are light on evolution. I would add "Your Inner Fish" by Neil Shubin.
ReplyDeleteFair point, and thanks for the suggestion. Of course, I was simply listing some recent books that looked interesting to me. I've already read plenty about evolution.