How the Zebra Got Its Stripes (And Other Darwinian Just So Stories) Leo Grasset (trans. Barbara Mellor) 2016 Hachette, Profile Books pp. 154 I picked up this book as part of Hachette India’s bookstagram challenge during the COVID lockdown, currently in progress. This lockdown has had many effects including giving me even lesser time for…
Nano Robin Cook 2013 Pan Macmillan pp. 436 Another in a series of medical fiction by Robin Cook, Nano is a reminder to all readers about why Cook’s writing is so engaging. Despite the longish read, the book was quite engaging. It reminded me of why I had initially started reading his books. Besides being…
This new YouTube channel talks is working towards building a scientific temper by talking about what is relevant to us on an everyday basis. Science that is oft seen as theoretical, bookish and somewhat distant is made relevant by talking about things that are of importance on an everyday basis. Two of the videos uploaded…
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the UniverseStephen Hawking2006Jaicopp. 120The Theory of Everything is based on a collection of lectures by Hawking. The brilliance of Hawking in the concepts that he talks about and the way he talks about them is unmatched. Like his other book, A Brief History of Time, he…
