Ask HN: Looking for an Engaging Science Book I want to learn more about the natural sciences, and I'm looking for a great book that'll give me the basics and keep me interested. I have a terrible attention span for reading so I want something designed to keep an idiot like me engaged. Does anyone have any recommendations? |
An Immense World, by Ed Yong; grabbed my attention right away
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are, by Frans de Waal; got here from dog training and Temple Grandin and animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell
How Far the Light Reaches, by Sabrina Imbler; looks fascinating
Feral, by George Monbiot; Iteland used to be a rainforest, and salmon used to choke the rivers out here in the Pacific Northwest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Biographical_Encycl...
Nominally about the Permian-Triassic extinction, but more about history of geology and how science recognizes catastrophic events.