{"id":806,"date":"2008-08-31T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=806"},"modified":"2008-08-31T21:24:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T21:24:05","slug":"popular-science-book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2008\/08\/popular-science-book-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Science Book Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Cocktail Party Physics<\/a>, via Pharyngula<\/a> comes another book meme, this one about popular science books. The rules are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Highlight those you’ve read in full<\/li>\n
  2. Asterisk those you intend to read<\/li>\n
  3. Add any additional popular science books you think belong on the list<\/li>\n
  4. Link back to the great pop-sci book project<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Micrographia, Robert Hooke<\/li>\n
    2. The Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin<\/li>\n
    3. Never at Rest, Richard Westfall<\/li>\n
    4. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman<\/li>\n
    5. Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney<\/li>\n
    6. The Devil’s Doctor, Philip Ball<\/li>\n
    7. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes<\/li>\n
    8. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, Dennis Overbye<\/li>\n
    9. Physics for Entertainment, Yakov Perelman<\/li>\n
    10. 1-2-3 Infinity, George Gamow<\/li>\n
    11. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene<\/li>\n
    12. Warmth Disperses, Time Passes, Hans Christian von Bayer<\/li>\n
    13. Alice in Quantumland, Robert Gilmore<\/li>\n
    14. Where Does the Weirdness Go? David Lindley<\/li>\n
    15. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson<\/b><\/li>\n
    16. A Force of Nature, Richard Rhodes<\/li>\n
    17. Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip Thorne<\/li>\n
    18. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking<\/b><\/li>\n
    19. Universal Foam, Sidney Perkowitz<\/li>\n
    20. Vermeer’s Camera, Philip Steadman<\/li>\n
    21. The Code Book, Simon Singh<\/li>\n
    22. The Elements of Murder, John Emsley<\/li>\n
    23. Soul Made Flesh, Carl Zimmer<\/li>\n
    24. Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis<\/li>\n
    25. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, George Johnson<\/li>\n
    26. Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman<\/li>\n
    27. Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter<\/li>\n
    28. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, Lisa Jardine<\/li>\n
    29. A Matter of Degrees, Gino Segre<\/li>\n
    30. The Physics of Star Trek, Lawrence Krauss<\/b><\/li>\n
    31. E=mc², David Bodanis<\/li>\n
    32. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife<\/li>\n
    33. Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold, Tom Shachtman<\/li>\n
    34. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Janna Levin<\/li>\n
    35. Warped Passages, Lisa Randall<\/li>\n
    36. Apollo’s Fire, Michael Sims<\/li>\n
    37. Flatland, Edward Abbott<\/li>\n
    38. Fermat’s Last Theorem, Amir Aczel<\/li>\n
    39. Stiff, Mary Roach<\/li>\n
    40. Astroturf, M.G. Lord<\/li>\n
    41. The Periodic Table, Primo Levi<\/li>\n
    42. Longitude, Dava Sobel<\/li>\n
    43. The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg<\/li>\n
    44. The Mummy Congress, Heather Pringle<\/li>\n
    45. The Accelerating Universe, Mario Livio<\/li>\n
    46. Math and the Mona Lisa, Bulent Atalay<\/li>\n
    47. This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel Levitin<\/li>\n
    48. The Executioner’s Current, Richard Moran<\/li>\n
    49. Krakatoa, Simon Winchester<\/b><\/li>\n
    50. Pythagorus’ Trousers, Margaret Wertheim<\/li>\n
    51. Neuromancer, William Gibson<\/b><\/li>\n
    52. The Physics of Superheroes, James Kakalios<\/li>\n
    53. The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump, Sandra Hempel<\/li>\n
    54. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Katrina Firlik<\/li>\n
    55. Einstein’s Clocks and Poincare’s Maps, Peter Galison<\/li>\n
    56. The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan<\/li>\n
    57. The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins<\/b><\/li>\n
    58. The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker<\/li>\n
    59. An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears<\/b><\/li>\n
    60. Consilience, E.O. Wilson<\/li>\n
    61. Wonderful Life, Stephen J. Gould<\/li>\n
    62. Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard<\/li>\n
    63. Fire in the Brain, Ronald K. Siegel<\/li>\n
    64. The Life of a Cell, Lewis Thomas<\/li>\n
    65. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris<\/li>\n
    66. Storm World, Chris Mooney<\/li>\n
    67. The Carbon Age, Eric Roston<\/li>\n
    68. The Black Hole Wars, Leonard Susskind<\/li>\n
    69. Copenhagen, Michael Frayn<\/li>\n
    70. From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne<\/li>\n
    71. Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson<\/li>\n
    72. Chaos, James Gleick<\/b><\/li>\n
    73. Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos<\/li>\n
    74. The Physics of NASCAR, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky<\/li>\n
    75. Subtle is the Lord, Abraham Pais<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      PZ Meyers felt there wasn’t enough biology and so added these:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Basin and Range, John McPhee<\/li>\n
      2. Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner<\/li>\n
      3. Chance and Necessity, Jacques Monod<\/li>\n
      4. Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation, Olivia Judson<\/li>\n
      5. Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean Carroll<\/li>\n
      6. Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Carl Zimmer<\/li>\n
      7. Genome, Matt Ridley<\/li>\n
      8. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond<\/b><\/li>\n
      9. It Ain’t Necessarily So, Richard Lewontin<\/li>\n
      10. On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson<\/li>\n
      11. Phantoms in the Brain, VS Ramachandran<\/li>\n
      12. The Ancestor’s Tale, Richard Dawkins<\/b><\/li>\n
      13. The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Elisabeth Lloyd<\/li>\n
      14. The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson<\/li>\n
      15. The Great Devonian Controversy, Martin Rudwick<\/li>\n
      16. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Oliver Sacks<\/li>\n
      17. The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould<\/li>\n
      18. The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment, Richard Lewontin<\/li>\n
      19. Time, Love, Memory, Jonathan Weiner<\/li>\n
      20. Voyaging and The Power of Place, Janet Browne<\/li>\n
      21. Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        And I’ll chuck in a few suggestions of my own to bring it to a round one hundred.<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Cosmos, Carl Sagan<\/b><\/li>\n
        2. Life: An Unauthorized Biography, Richard Fortey<\/b><\/li>\n
        3. The Dinosaur Heresies, Robert T. Bakker<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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