In 1961, Richard Feynman stood before a room of Caltech freshmen and began a two-year lecture course in introductory physics that his colleagues had designed to address a specific problem: too many physics students were emerging from their first courses technically competent but fundamentally incurious, able to solve problems on exams but not sure why…
Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke in 1675 that if he had seen further, it was by standing on the shoulders of giants. Stephen Hawking borrowed that phrase as the title for this anthology, published by Running Press in 2002, which brings together five landmark texts in the history of astronomy and physics: excerpts from…
R.E. Burrillo is an archaeologist who has spent years working in the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau, recording rock art, documenting sites, and watching the landscape he studies come under intensifying pressure from extraction industries, recreational overuse, and political maneuvering. This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments, published…
Jeffrey Bennett is a science educator and author whose previous books include textbooks on astronomy, mathematics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. A Global Warming Primer: Answering Your Questions about the Science, the Consequences, and the Solutions, self-published through his Big Kid Science imprint in 2016, takes a format that sounds simple and executes it…
Summary In the first decades of the twentieth century, a small group of scientists dismantled the classical picture of nature and replaced it with something far stranger, far more powerful, and, by their own admission, far beyond any single human mind’s ability to hold complete. Tobias Huerter’s Too Big for a Single Mind tells that…
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