The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of the Typographic Man — Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan published The Gutenberg Galaxy in 1962, and the world mostly wasn’t ready for…
E=mc²: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis — A Review
Five letters and a superscript. No punctuation. No explanation required. Of all the intellectual achievements…
101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either by James Trefil — A Book Review
What a scientist doesn’t know is more interesting than what he does. That’s not a…
Suspensions of Perception by Jonathan Crary: A Review
Published in 1999 by MIT Press, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture is…
Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands by Edward J. Larson
Isolation is the oldest teacher. Long before Darwin ever set foot on the Galápagos, those…
Bots: The Origin of New Species — Andrew Leonard (Book Review)
Andrew Leonard wrote Bots: The Origin of New Species in 1997, and almost everything he…
