The Friendly Book Cave 2020 discussion

I have found that simple threads listing recent books one has read or is reading, along with a brief comment to be helpful to me as I am always looking for new reads. If you are really energetic a review would be useful, but that is a lot more work. I will lead off with my latest read. Please hop on board. Of course, this group is a science group so I suppose posts should be relevant, but certainly not obligatory.

On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation

The Origin of Species is a good classic science read. I particularly liked his descriptions of experimentation (i.e. at one point he talks about floating seeds in vats in his yard to determine the likelihood of plants on islands descending from plants from the mainland through their seeds floating there).

I liked how such a revolutionary idea could have been the product of a guy doing low tech experiments in his yard and such in isolation.