Popular Science Books
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Books! Also, science, reason, humanism and progress. Molecular biology PhD student.
Morning, Womble. I’m reading The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman and it’s fascinating. Enjoy your holiday!
August 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Morning, Womble. I’m reading The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman and it’s fascinating. Enjoy your holiday!
Currently reading A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee. #PopSci @endofthepier.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Currently reading A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee. #PopSci @endofthepier.bsky.social
Morning Womble, I’m reading about the evolution of Australian mammals by reading Platypus Matters by Jack Ashby.
July 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Morning Womble, I’m reading about the evolution of Australian mammals by reading Platypus Matters by Jack Ashby.
Currently reading Platypus Matters, The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals, by Jack Ashby. #PopSci @jackdashby.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Currently reading Platypus Matters, The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals, by Jack Ashby. #PopSci @jackdashby.bsky.social
Morning, Womble! I’m reading Destroyer of Worlds by Frank Close, a well-written history of nuclear physics. It’s great.
June 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Morning, Womble! I’m reading Destroyer of Worlds by Frank Close, a well-written history of nuclear physics. It’s great.
Currently reading Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #PopSci
June 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Currently reading Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #PopSci
Yes, my copy jumps back into the romantasy story again after page 10 for another 8 pages or so. Going to return it for another copy because chunks of your book are missing.
June 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Yes, my copy jumps back into the romantasy story again after page 10 for another 8 pages or so. Going to return it for another copy because chunks of your book are missing.
@maxjtelford.bsky.social I think my copy of Tree of Life has a printing error. It starts with a romantasy story before jumping mid-sentence to page 6 of the introduction. Weird!
June 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
@maxjtelford.bsky.social I think my copy of Tree of Life has a printing error. It starts with a romantasy story before jumping mid-sentence to page 6 of the introduction. Weird!
Currently reading about how the vertebrate eye is wired backwards giving us blind spots and an increased likelihood of detached retinas by reading Human Errors by Nathan H Lents. #popsci
June 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Currently reading about how the vertebrate eye is wired backwards giving us blind spots and an increased likelihood of detached retinas by reading Human Errors by Nathan H Lents. #popsci
Hello! I was already on the deterministic side before I read the book. I should read Free Agents by Kevin J Mitchell at some point to hear arguments from the other side. Do you have a position?
June 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Hello! I was already on the deterministic side before I read the book. I should read Free Agents by Kevin J Mitchell at some point to hear arguments from the other side. Do you have a position?
Currently reading A Devil’s Chaplain by Richard Dawkins.
May 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Currently reading A Devil’s Chaplain by Richard Dawkins.
Morning, Womble. I’m learning about what life on Earth was like 500 million years ago by reading Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould.
May 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Morning, Womble. I’m learning about what life on Earth was like 500 million years ago by reading Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould.
Great book. Continuing the theme, I also enjoyed Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind by Richard Fortey. Check it out if you’re interested.
April 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Great book. Continuing the theme, I also enjoyed Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind by Richard Fortey. Check it out if you’re interested.
Been enjoying Richard Fortey’s books recently. This one is about the wildlife in a small wood in the Chilterns that he and his family acquired.
April 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Been enjoying Richard Fortey’s books recently. This one is about the wildlife in a small wood in the Chilterns that he and his family acquired.
Currently reading The Wood for the Trees by Richard Fortey.
March 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Currently reading The Wood for the Trees by Richard Fortey.
Currently reading The Genetic Book of the Dead by Richard Dawkins.
March 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Currently reading The Genetic Book of the Dead by Richard Dawkins.
February 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Currently reading a beat up ex-library copy of Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal. Always excited to learn more about the human condition by studying our closest animal relatives. #PopSci
February 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Currently reading a beat up ex-library copy of Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal. Always excited to learn more about the human condition by studying our closest animal relatives. #PopSci
Currently reading Tales from the Ant World by E.O. Wilson.
January 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Currently reading Tales from the Ant World by E.O. Wilson.