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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz See other reviews at the Science Shelf Book Review Archive This review originally appeared in The Dallas Morning News and is the copyrighted property of Alfred B. Bortz. Individuals may print single copies for their own use. For permission to publish … Read more
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 272 pages, $26.00, July 2014) Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz Discover more book reviews at The Science Shelf This review is the copyrighted property of Alfred B. Bortz. Individuals may print single copies for their own use. For … Read more
Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz To see more reviews of science books, visit The Science Shelf This review is the copyrighted property of Alfred B. Bortz. Individuals may print single copies for their own use. For permission to publish … Read more
Review of Visions of Infinity by Ian Stewart (Basic Books, 352 pages, $26.99, March 2013) This review is the copyrighted property of Alfred B. Bortz. Individuals may print single copies for their own use. For permission to publish or print multiple copies of any of the materials on this site, please contact the author by … Read more
The Physics Nobel Prize will be awarded tomorrow. I would be surprised if it is not for the Higgs Boson discovery. Here’s a ScienceBlog review of a book that names the key figures who are in the running for the award. Too bad it can only go to three of them. I blogged about the … Read more
Readers of this blog might be interested in the backstory of my book for young readers Meltdown! The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future. A great advocate for nonfiction who writes under the online persona Book Kvetch published this very nice Q&A, which I hope you will enjoy.
As the 2012 political campaign heats up, statistical data is being massaged, distorted, and misapplied–unfortunately as has become the norm. Thus it seems like the right time to reprise an earlier blog entry in which I reviewed Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife (Viking, 2010, $25.95, 304 pages) Reviewed by Dr. … Read more
The Violinist’s Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean (Little, Brown, 416 pages, $25.99, July, 2012) Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz See other reviews archived at the Science Shelf Note: This review is the copyrighted property of Alfred B. Bortz. Individuals may print … Read more
Gravity: How the Weakest Force in the Universe Shaped Our Lives by Brian Clegg (St. Martin’s, 336 pages, $25.99, June, 2012) Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz See other reviews of popular physics books at the Science Shelf (This review is the copyrighted property of Alfred B. Bortz. Individuals may print single copies for their own … Read more
As I type this, the physics world is anticipating a great announcement from the Large Hadron Collider that the data analysis is at least very suggestive that the elusive Higgs Boson has been seen. Perhaps the researchers will even declare a discovery. If you want to understand the reason for the excitement, I recommend reading … Read more