Another Science Fiction
Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962 by Megan Prelinger Reviewed by Benjamin Moser Harper's Magazine In 1961, in a speech unimaginable for a Republican (or most Democrats)...
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I can't believe how much information is packed into this dense and comprehensive book. Energy-Wise Landscape Design includes everything I could think to throw in it: rain barrels, lawn elimination,...
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Reviewed by Edward Tenner The Wilson Quarterly Two recent books on the future of media go against the grain of their authors'...
View ArticleThe Photographic Card Deck of the Elements
This gorgeous photographic card deck is a more portable version of Theodore Gray's bestselling book The Elements, and it's just as impossible to stop flipping through. With a beautifully represented...
View ArticleCooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
Cooking for Geeks is not only one of my favorite cookbooks of 2010, it may be one of my top five books of the year, period. It's that readable. I'd say that Jeff Potter is like Harold McGee or Alton...
View ArticleMore Show Me How
Is this a strangely entertaining reference book or a reference book of strange entertainment? I'm not sure, but I know this much: you'll laugh just as often as you'll learn, whether it's how to divide...
View ArticleMoonshine!
Wanna make hooch? Equipped with this book, you can definitely get your moonshining craft started right. Rowley presents the basics of distillation in a concise, fun-to-read manner. Plus, Moonshine!...
View ArticleImagining the Invisible
Image and Reality: Kekul, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination (Synthesis) by Alan J. Rocke Reviewed by Jeremiah James American Scientist The theory of chemical structure, although it rarely receives...
View ArticleYou Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
Proceed carefully. Reading this book is like biting into a jalapeño jelly bean that you thought was pear flavored. Startling, eye-opening, and a bit unnerving, Lanier's manifesto could be the key to...
View ArticleThe Hidden Reality
In the first chapter of The Hidden Reality, Brian Greene writes, "There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang." Well, those days are over. From string theory to...
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