Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
A recommendation and mini - book review from Joel Johnson earned Traffic a spot in our Reading Room : “ need to learn about humans mix engineering science into widely - ranging , mundane systems ? And learn even more because its about a internet that ’s been in place for a hundred geezerhood ? Maybe you should assimilate the staggering amount of sociological and behavioral datum that Vanderbilt has accumulate about our human relationship with the only technology we creep in spite of appearance of every twenty-four hours . ( nut chair owners excluded . ) ” ballock chairperson ? Say no more . [ Amazon;Kindle;Barnes and Noble;Nook ]
The Best Technology Writing 2009
Blogging , Google , sitcom , and all the topic which keep us at our keyboards each 24-hour interval seem to be ram into this collection of essay . It may be tech reading , but it ’s some of the good tech reading of this year . [ Amazon;Kindle;Barnes and Noble ]
In Search of the Multiverse
by John Gribbin
Whether you eff reading about twine possibility , quantum physics , thermodynamics , and all the crazy things that explain our universe or not , John Gribbin ’s In Search of the Multiverse is an incredible read . Heads up though , it may leave your head spinning as you feel a whole new sense of insignificance . [ Out of print , deplorably , but copies available throughAlibrisorAmazon ]
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
by Michael Specter
The practiced way to estimate if you ’ll bask Michael Specter ’s book is to take a look atour interview with him . If that leave your interest piqued or “ if you ’re just tired of people bitch about base - cadre inquiry , genetically altered foods or the say evil that ambuscade in vaccination , ” then give Denialism a read . [ Amazon;Kindle;Barnes and Noble ]
https://gizmodo.com/synthetic-biology-why-not-pursuing-crazy-biotech-is-da-5403816
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
by Gordon Bell
It ’s scary how transparent our lifetime can become with some of today ’s engineering science , but at the same prison term all the tool we utilize , from societal media internet to personal web log to to - do software , can revolutionize how we retain knowledge and what remains after we are gone . Total Recall explore angles ranging from privacy to why exactly you ’d want to capture so much item and hold back it . rattling read , even if I doubt I ’ll write about it in my private journal - style web log . [ Amazon;Kindle;Barnes and Noble;Nook ]
The Ocean Almanac
by Robert Hendrickson
Brian Lam recommend this unfortunately out - of - print al-Qur’an and describe it as “ super poise . ” The publishing company explains that the books is an “ entertaining , informative almanac offer one C of fascinating essay , anecdotes , fact , legends , and enigma concerning the sea , its amazing inhabitants — both veridical and apocryphal — and the men and ships who have voyage it through the ages . ” Between those two descriptions , it ’s toughened to resist searching through some used book storage for a written matter . [ Alibris;Amazon;Barnes and Noble ]
https://gizmodo.com/the-gizmodo-reading-room-books-we-love-5419530
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