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Dr. Joe & What You Didn't Know: 99 Fascinating Questions About the Chemistry of Everyday Life
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The "Dr. Joe" books are all very readable, interesting, informative, and bring some much-needed scientific rigour to the realm of "popular science." As a chemistry professor at McGill University, one of Canada's most prestigeous schools, Schwarcz brings a couple decades worth of authority to his books. That's not to say that they are dry and simply f... »
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Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time (ScienceWriters)
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Consider these eight statements:
(1) "There is a psychological immune system that protects us from the 'slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'...but we are unaware of it."
(2) "In a utopian world, psychopaths would stand out as predators, because that is what they do, take advantage of others. We could live in a... »
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The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
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Horace Freeland Judson, author of The Eighth Day of Creation, eloquently examines the nature and causes of scientific fraud in The Great Betrayal. Although the process of science has built-in checks and balances such as peer review and paper refereeing, Judson calls these "moribund" and asks "whether in fact and to what extent science rea... »
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