Science and Inquiry discussion

I just joined the group and I'm wondering about a new book for the new year. It looks like you all last read in common back in April. Anyone up for starting something now?
I've got "Proust was a Neuroscientist" and "Who got Einstin's Office" sitting on my TBR pile, but I'm open to other ideas...

Both books "Proust was a Neuroscientist" and "Who Got Einstein's Office?" look very interesting.

Some other books I am interested in reading:
"The Greatest Show On Earth: Evidence for Evolution" by Richard Dawkins
"The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" by Steven Pinker
"The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge
"Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries" by Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer" by Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky is a great book. Highly recommended. The theme of the book is that, what makes the subject of symmetry interesting, are the things that cause symmetry to be broken. Lots of photographs and diagrams of symmetry being broken. Here is a little tidbit: The first photograph in the book shows the splash of a milk droplet that fell into a pool of milk. The splash consists of 24 spikes and droplets that spring into the air. It's always 24! Why?

By the way, are novels allowed? One that got my attention is:
"A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel" by Gaurav Suri.

I guess it's not very new, but I just started "The Number Sense" by Stanislas Dehaene.

David-I think a lot of the group have read "Death by Black Hole..." but I haven't and I'd love to~~

Ben- I didn't mean a "new" book, just new to us.

I'm up for reading and discussing something; "Death by Black Hole" or the new Richard Dawkins in particular appeal to me. Shall we entreat our group leader to set up a new group read?

ok, so it doesn't look like there is tons of interest here, but 3 out of 4 of us want to read Death by Black Hole, so let's go with that.

Dan wrote: "I'm up for reading and discussing something; "Death by Black Hole" or the new Richard Dawkins in particular appeal to me. Shall we entreat our group leader to set up a new group read?"

yes, is there a protocol here? since the group did this book in the past, i don't know if he'd set it up again, but we can try.

I believe William (group leader) has to set this up if it's to show up on the group page, though of course people can just go ahead and read and discuss on their own. I wrote him last week but haven't heard back ... or William if you didn't get my message, could you reply here about setting up the group read?

I would be interested in reading Death by Black Hole, as that's a step away from what I usually read.

Congrats, Salvatrice, on becoming the group leader! Did you want to go ahead and make Death by Black Hole the group read for next month?

thanks, Dan. Yes, Death by Black Hole has been updated to the book club. There is already a thread for discussions from the previous read so we can initiate further discussions there. Is 2/28 an ok read-by date? If not, it can easily be changed.