The world could end tomorrow. The Doomsday Handbook by Ahok Jia tells how it would all go down, how to prepare ourselves, and how we might prevent it all in the first place.
Charles Clover’s The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat takes the form of a tour around the
Dr. Mark Changizi’s “The Vision Revolution” compares four aspects of human vision to superpowers, highlighting some of the remarkable qualities of our visual systems.
In “The Aha! Moment,” David Jones describes his theory of creativity, focusing on the role of a structure that he calls the “Random Ideas-Generator” and providing examples from his own career.
Mary Roach’s 2003 novel, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, takes a detailed look into the various destinies of post-mortem human bodies, and is extremely accessible despite its morbid subject.
In “Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100,” physicist Michio Kaku grapples with the feasibility of technologies that may become available in the next century, blending technical arguments with a captivating style.
As the world anxiously awaits the supposed apocalypse on December 21, 2012, Arthur T. White provides his own spin on the doomsday theories in his novel, The 2012 Black Hole Killer.
Caltech astronomer Mike Brown recounts his role in the demise of Pluto in his fascinating new book, How I Killed Pluto and Why it Had it Coming.
In their book “The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of how Puzzles Improve Your Mind,” neuroscientist Richard Restak and “puzzle master” Scott Kim lay out the science of improving your brain.
Curiosity has often pushed mankind to find the laws governing natural phenomena. Both mythology and the Scientific Revolution have been byproducts of our need to