Category: Science
Stereoscopic Cinema And The Origins Of The 3D Film 1838-1952 by Ray Zone (book review).
Love it or hate it, the 3D revolution and row rumbles on as the entertainment industry continues to plague us with movies that appear to lurch out of the screen in a desperate effort to keep audiences in multiplexes. We may think of this as a modern phenomena but this titanic effort has been going […]
The Making Of The Mind by Ronald T. Kellogg (book review).
The mind. We all have one. Well, I do think I’d raise some question marks on some so-called celebrities who don’t even know they live on a planet but that’s mostly for not making the best use of something they have inside their heads. Ronald T. Kellogg’s book, ‘The Making Of The Mind, examines how […]
Starship Century: Towards The Grandest Horizon edited by James Benford and Gregory Benford (book review).
‘Starship Century: Towards The Grandest Horizon’ should be on your must read booklist for this year. The material is garnered from the ‘2011 100 Year Starship Symposium’ and all proceeds from this book will be donated to research on interstellar travel. There are twenty-one articles and stories from scientists, like Stephen Hawking and Freeman Dyson, […]
It kind of is rocket science…
Elon Musk of HyperLoop fame has been busy with his other transport system recently – the SpaceX ‘Grasshopper’ re-usable rocket, which recently proved it can make some jump-jet-like course corrections in the air while hovering. Now that really is rocket science, kids. I think that Elon is aiming to end up like a real life […]
Think Like A Maths Genius by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer (book review).
Books like ‘Think Like A Maths Genius’ by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer bring out the inner geek in me. Anything that can improve my abilities is always worth an evaluation. This book also lives up to its name. By the end of the first chapter I was doing additions and subtractions with three and […]
Evolving: The Human Effect And Why It Matters by Daniel J. Fairbanks (book review).
As can be seen from the title, ‘Evolving: The Human Effect And Why It Matters’, Daniel J. Fairbanks’ book is about evolution with a special concentration on Man and how he spread across this planet. This book strongly hits the creationists and those who believe in the so-called ‘intelligent design’ with proof of evolution but […]
Super Fuel by Richard Martin (book review).
When I reviewed ‘God And The Atom’ by Victor J. Stenger, he pointed out Richard Martin’s book ‘Super Fuel’ as an important book pointing out thorium as a safer alternative to uranium as the radioactive fuel in nuclear power plants. The nice lady publicist at Macmillan came up with a copy noting it was released […]
The Mystery Of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All edited by John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn (book review).
Editors John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn bring together the views of some fifty scientists and philosophers questioning…well…the universe and everything in this book ‘The Mystery Of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All’. Some things like the Stephen Hawking quote that he knows how the universe works but not why it bothers to exist […]
Rocket Girl: The Story Of Mary Sherman Morgan by George D. Morgan (book review).
I suspect even author George D. Morgan recounting the life of his mother, Mary Sherman Morgan here in this book, ‘Rocket Girl’ never remotely dreamed her significance when young. Mary felt constrained not to talk about her work to even her own children and it only came out at her funeral to them that […]
God And The Atom by Victor J. Stenger (book review).
Victor J. Stenger’s examination of the atom in this aptly named book, ‘God And The Atom’, begins very much with its history. As I’ve covered the history of science before, I’ll hit the highlights of things that I might have not been aware of or need further note. Although Stenger admits that the greatest discoveries […]
