by L Ruby Hannigan | Dec 14, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Science & Technology
Kimmy is so excited to go on a field trip with her class to the natural history museum for dinosaurs. She can’t wait to explain to her classmates all the things that she loves to learn about such as fossils and feathers and shells and stones. She has a grand...
by Don Messerschmidt | Nov 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology
In the mid-1950s, when Daniel Taylor was a schoolboy growing up in the Himalayas of North India, he was assigned to write a paper on any subject of his choice. “At first,” he says, “I thought I’d do tigers―tigers were the ultimate quarry for Taylor boys―but I decided...
by Retired Reviewer | Oct 23, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology, Sponsored
If you’ve ever wanted to take a crash course in the sciences, then Astronomy & Natural History Connections: From Darwin to Einstein may just be the book for you. Barry Boyce’s book makes a bold attempt to teach readers about the wonders found around us here on...
by Howard Leighton | Oct 1, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology
Thankfully the author of this book has chosen to write about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a manner that is understandable to those of us without a significant background in physics, mathematics, or computer science. Additionally he has structured his book in three...
by Norman West | Aug 22, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Science & Technology
How to Fix the Future is an interesting book and worthwhile, though somewhat limited in scope. The focus is on the digital world and how it impacts our humanity: Brave new world a’ La Aldous Huxley or a new world for the brave (and educated). The challenges to our...
by Sarah Hutchins | Apr 12, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology, Social Science
It would be easy to presume that Will Storr’s book is as cutesy as its title, Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us, but that would be a mistake. Storr, a renowned long-form journalist, takes the reader on a journey from Ancient Greece to...
