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  • 1.  Popular Science Book Recommendations?

    Posted yesterday
    Hi all!
    Summer is here and I'm always looking for new books to read. I recently picked up 'The Craft of Science Writing' and have been contemplating what makes science accessible and engaging to a general audience. It feels particularly important to understand how to narrate the story of science right now in a time when narratives counter to science are spreading. Popular science books like 'Everything is Tuberculosis' or 'I Contain Multitudes' really nail science storytelling, making complex topics engaging for audiences that likely have no prior background in the subject. I always want to learn more about what makes science stories work, and I'd love to know what your favorite popular science book is and why you think it's great!


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    Camille Ledoux PhD
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  • 2.  RE: Popular Science Book Recommendations?

    Posted 20 hours ago
    One recent new book of which I thought highly is "The Great Shadow" by Susan Wise Bauer. It operates at the interface of medicine and society across history and, as the underline after its title indicates, it is "A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy." Very readable, offers new perspectives.


    Another interesting new book is "The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief " by Richard Hughes. In the words of Gemini AI, it "examines how [the great British poet Alfred Lord] Tennyson engaged with new scientific ideas, such as fossil evidence and the vastness of the cosmos, which challenged traditional beliefs." 


    Addresses how creative minds coped with dramatic advances and profound changes in scientific understanding during an earlier era (Victorian England) of turbulent intellectual changes.

    --Elliot Richman PhD




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