Science and Inquiry discussion

Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for October 2019.

Please use the "add book/author" link just above the comment box to insert a link to the Goodreads book page for the book you are nominating, so other members can more easily assess it.

You may nominate a book which has been suggested previously and did not win. You may nominate more than one book, but we might not include all of your nominations in the voting.

Please do not nominate a book which is unlikely to be available to all members, such as one which was just published within the last three months or which is only available on Kindle in the U.S.

Nominations will close on August 21 or when we have about 10 good nominations, whichever occurs first.

Our Mathematical Universe Max Tegmark
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Pedro wrote: ""Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character"

That was our book of the month during November, 2012.

I just read Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen and would like to recommend it. It is a quick read but it is a thrill ride of darn good science.

I did not see this book on the past book shelves, at least in the epidemiology shelf but I did notice a thread regarding David Quammen's books which all seem to be very interesting reads.

I'd like to nominate Assembling California by John McPhee.

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension this really inspired me but wasn't able to finish it last year, tackling this time.

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Book by Steven Strogatz

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

Against Method

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley.

Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Kim wrote: "Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3..."

Kim, please read message #4 above.

Betsy wrote: "Please post a comment below to nominate a book for the group to read for October 2019.

Please use the "add book/author" link just above the comment box to insert a link to the Goodreads book page ..."

"Amity and Prosperity" - well-researched, objective and compassionate .

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna By Edith Sheffer

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli

Dinesh wrote: "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"

We already read this, in June & July 2012.

Darrin wrote: "I just read Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen and would like to recommend it. It is a quick read but it is a thrill ride of darn..."

Although we haven't read this small book, we did read Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, in 2013, which contained the original version of this book.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Nominations are now closed. I'll be publishing a poll shortly.

Please vote for your preference at the following poll:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

which will be open through August 24th.