On the topic of science and technology, depressingly few books were mentioned at all. The top sci/tech scorer was Hawking's A Brief History of Time, with three mentions. Also mentioned were Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Ridley's Genome, and, oddly, Brockman's Greatest Inventions.
I have five, almost. The thing is that I have lived almost all of my career out of a small few non-textbooks in science and technology. They were just that good.
Hare the books I'd recommend today.
- The Curve of Binding Energy - John McPhee
- Political Numeracy - Michael Meyerson
- Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman - Dick Feynman
- The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
- The Global Brain - Howard Bloom
So there.
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