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Stuart Ritchie, “Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science” (Penguin Books, 2020)
Stuart Ritchie
Science Fictions
Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science
Penguin Books, 2020

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network August 10, 2020 Matthew Jordan

So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on? In Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science (Penguin Books, 2020), Stuart Ritchie, a professor of psychology at King’s College London, lucidly explains how science works, and exposes the systemic issues that prevent the... Read More
Solomon Goldstein-Rose, “The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change” (Melville House, 2020)
Solomon Goldstein-Rose
The 100% Solution
A Plan for Solving Climate Change
Melville House, 2020

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society July 29, 2020 Matthew Jordan

At age 26, Solomon Goldstein-Rose has already spent more time thinking about climate change than most of us will in our lifetimes. He’s been a climate activist since age 11, studied engineering and public policy to understand what physically has to happen to solve climate change, and served in the... Read More
Marc Zimmer, “The State of Science” (Prometheus Books, 2020)
Marc Zimmer
The State of Science
What the Future Holds and the Scientists Making It Happen
Prometheus Books, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society July 21, 2020 Matthew Jordan

New research and innovations in the field of science are leading to life-changing and world-altering discoveries like never before. What does the horizon of science look like? Who are the scientists that are making it happen? And, how are we to introduce these revolutions to a society in which a... Read More
David Kaiser, “Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World” (U Chicago Press, 2020)
David Kaiser
Quantum Legacies
Dispatches from an Uncertain World
University of Chicago Press, 2020

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society July 13, 2020 Matthew Jordan

David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science. As a historian, he studies mostly 20th-century physics, and in particular the history of quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, physics in the counterculture... Read More
Cailin O’Connor, “Games in the Philosophy of Biology” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Cailin O’Connor
Games in the Philosophy of Biology

Cambridge University Press Elements, 2020

New Books in MathematicsNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & Technology July 10, 2020 Carrie Figdor

The branch of mathematics called game theory – the Prisoners Dilemma is a particularly well-known example of a game – is used by philosophers, social scientists, and others to explore many types of social relations between humans and between nonhuman creatures. In Games in the Philosophy of Biology (Cambridge University... Read More
Eric Holthaus, “The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming” (HarperOne, 2020)
Eric Holthaus
The Future Earth
A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming
HarperOne, 2020

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in World Affairs June 30, 2020 Brian Hamilton

We sit at the beginning of what could be “both a truly terrifying and a golden era in humanity.” In The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming (HarperOne, 2020), leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus (“the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology”­–Rolling... Read More
Lee McIntyre, “The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience” (MIT Press, 2019)
Lee McIntyre
The Scientific Attitude
Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
MIT Press, 2019

New Books in EducationNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society June 24, 2020 Jonathan Haber

What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth? Does science simply represent a successful methodology, or is it something more? In The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience (MIT Press, 2019), Lee McIntyre addresses recent attacks on science in areas such as... Read More
Henry M. Cowles, “The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Henry M. Cowles
The Scientific Method
An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey
Harvard University Press, 2020

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network June 17, 2020 Lukas Rieppel

The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of knowledge, made from facts gathered through direct observation or deduced from first principles. But during the nineteenth century, science came to mean... Read More
Brian Greene, “Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe” (Random House, 2020)
Brian Greene
Until the End of Time
Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Random House, 2020

NBN SeminarNew Books in Big IdeasNew Books in MathematicsNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network June 2, 2020 John Weston

Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics, and co-founder and chair of the World Science Festival. He is well known for his TV mini-series about... Read More

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