Reads tagged with “science”
7 Favorite Science Books of 2017
From trees to consciousness to black holes, an immersion into the glory of the knowable and the splendor of the unknown.
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the Women Cryptographers Who Fought WWII at the Intersection of Language and Mathematics
“Virtually as soon as humans developed the ability to speak and write, somebody somewhere felt the desire to say something to somebody else that could not be understood by others.”
The Dialogues: Illustrated Conversations About the Most Thrilling Frontiers of Science by Theoretical Physicist and Self-Taught Artist Clifford Johnson
From black holes to the multiverse, a cosmic comic celebrating the endangered art of human conversation.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on Free Will
“Freedom is always a question of degree rather than an absolute good that we do or do not possess.”
Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body?
An animated journey to the center of the self.
Jad Abumrad Reads an Ode to the Glory of Tiny Creatures and Celebrates His Mother’s Scientific Persistence
In praise of the invisible heroisms and unglamorous triumphs of nature and the human spirit.
The Songs of Trees: A Biologist’s Lyrical Ode to How Relationships Weave the Fabric of Life
“We cannot step outside life’s songs. This music made us; it is our nature.”
Pioneering Physicist Enrico Fermi on the “Utility” of Science, the Aim of Knowledge, and Our Ultimate Responsibility to Nature
“Scientific advances in basic understanding have sooner or later led to technical and industrial applications that have revolutionized our way of life.”
Technology, Wisdom, and the Difficult Art of Civilizational Self-Awareness: Thomas Merton’s Beautiful Letter of Appreciation to Rachel Carson for Catalyzing the Environmental Movement
“Technics and wisdom are not by any means opposed. On the contrary, the duty of our age… is to unite them in a supreme humility which will result in a totally self-forgetful creativity and service.”
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