An excellent book. I have enjoyed Ben Goldacre's colum in the Guardian for some time. I initially thought his book was going to be simply a collection of those articles; it is far more than ...
Boring!!!! (for your friends). Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
This is a must for the loo!
Open any page and its fun.
The problem is when you meet an...
There is a tide in the affairs of men. "There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and ...
It got me interested in magic squares . This book admittedly is not laid out in an obviously systematic way but i m not sure that matters. it got me interested in some things that i thought ...
Surprise: the ego trips a fuse. Never before have I felt the urge to advise amazon buyers not to buy a book. But there's a first time for everything. Sadly, this book is an intellectual and ...
I love this book - a great way of engaging children with science. I've had this book for a little while, I loved reading the experiments even though I didn't try them. I've put the book asid...
A truly compelling history of science in the Enlightenment. I'm not a scientist. I have only a passing interest in the history of science. However, I'm c250 pages in and I am gripped. Holmes...
The Dawkins Delusion - no science from a woolly-thinking fundamentalist. Dawkins is, if little else, at least consistent. This book follows his previous efforts at popular(ist) 'science', i...
Cop Out. The book is an assemblage of good answers to some good questions.
So why didn't I enjoy it?
I think because in keeping faith with the contributors of answers, several answers to ...
Start beating the credit crunch and digest Food For Free!. I do like a bit of hedgerow and it's great to enjoy the free gifts from Mother Nature, but until I got my hands on a copy of this p...
