I'm only 4 chapters in, but this is the best piece of book-length nonfiction I've read, maybe ever? Good science writers are hard to find, and this is fascinating.Another reviewer (Jenn), who I don't know but wish I did, wrote the following review, and I totally concur (and told her so):Here's an...
Sir Isaac Newton is regarded as a genius. I recently got hold of his biography written by James Gleick, who has also authored Genius and Chaos. I always wanted to know more about Newton’s life. Having known Einstein’s biography, I was curious to know how Newton’s life was. “Newton was not a pleas...
I went into this book idolizing Feynman. But I finished it thinking that he was an asshole who got excused for his behavior by possessing high intelligence. I used to think that Feynman was a fun, eccentric, bongo-playing scientist who wooed women. Now I know that he was one of the original douch...