Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder (2022, Atlantic Books, 248 pages pbk.) Bursting with opinions Dr Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist and highly accomplished science communicator. She writes popular science books and creates a strong presence on her YouTube channel, with her trademark combative opinions. In this book… Continue reading Cutting the Fringe
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Messenger
“Breaking Through” by Katalin Karikó 2023, Penguin / Random House, 322 pp. From there to here Katalin Karikó’s story is not a simple “rags-to-riches” tale, although her humble and unlikely origins in a rural village in communist Hungary, and the journey to worldwide acclaim and (after the end of this book) a Nobel Prize, would… Continue reading Messenger
Lost & Found
Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond (Picador, 2020) We are wanderers. Twentieth Century GPS worshippers with hunter-gatherer brains. Neuroscience has identified specialised brain regions adapted for specific navigation skills. There are boundary cells, grid cells, head direction cells. How they are coordinated is the focus… Continue reading Lost & Found