Book 30: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson - 208 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson ( Read more... )

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Book 28: Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino - 317 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal what 'the right stuff' truly is. Many children dream ( Read more... )

Book 22: Sun, Moon, Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets by Tyler Nordgren - 226 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: the first total eclipse of the sun in America in almost forty years. In Sun Moon ( Read more... )

Book 19: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance - 434 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars ( Read more... )

At first it was great fun.  Indoor work, no heavy lifting, and piece rates that were generous by the standards of the day, particularly if you put a fine tip on your paint brush by licking it.  And the factory dust sparkled in your hair, and the boss didn't make an issue of you using scrap paint at the end of the week for nail polish, which lit up ( Read more... )

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Book 20: 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Times by Michael Brooks - 224 pages

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Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, ( Read more... )

52. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay, by J. K. Rowling. I really enjoyed the movie, so I was eager to get my hands on this. Glad I did. It was a nice refresher on the film, and also had details that were cut from the final theatrical release. It also clarified a couple lines I (and I know others) had trouble understanding in the ( Read more... )