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Big fan of the Ezra, but this...

Revisado: 03-23-25

While I largely agree on many matters with Klein, especially about the building muck,
he does, as is too often with liberal arts types, gets much wrong about the science. His story of the NIH et al is flawed and one of the huge reason "break throughs" have slowed is because the Science have gotten very complicated . There is a lot to know.

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Not just for nerds

Revisado: 10-23-24

A surprisingly interesting and thought-provoking look at how things came to be made. Much better than anticipated.

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Big Tim Fan Here

Revisado: 09-23-24

While Syder has some interesting and useful ideas, they get lost in the avalanche of words. And virtue signaling. This would have been better and more useful as a 12 page essay.

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So near very good

Revisado: 08-27-24

While many of us will agree with Cooper's construction of much of the happenings in our country, he gives equal weight to missteps and grievances on both sides. But in reality the balance of wrong/bad actors is heavily weighted on one side and his denial of that detracts from reliance on his story.

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Among the best at telling the story of science

Revisado: 08-23-24

As a biology major I was aware of much that Cech covers, but with the addition of much I did not know existed about RNA. Perhaps the best part is his descriptions of the visits, talks, papers, friends that actually drive basic science- it is a team sport.

The down mark is for the speaker who just murdered too many well-known bio words- very distracting.

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Important. Topic

Revisado: 07-30-24

Cook spends a lot of time & words describing the life situations of the subjects of her inquiry. But the central reason of the book, why does this happen to nice people?, ends up obscured and nearly ineffable.

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Obviously outdated

Revisado: 06-25-24

A better balance of the good news and the bad would actually make this more compelling. Not mentioned were the thousands of human lives spared from malaria in America by use of home spray with DDT. She championed the use of radiation to sterilize flies only a few chapters after telling us how awful & unpredictable the stuff was. Only at the very end did she point out that many people were on the pathway to producing the concept of IPA Integrated Pest Management so widely used today but beginning in the 1940s & 50s.

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Such a Disappointment

Revisado: 06-07-24

I was hoping for an update on the well known & widely accepted idea of Evolution. Instead we get a mishmash of anecdotal factoids with no central definition of Evolution and how we know what happened. A large segment deteriorates into virtue signaling in vaguely connected effects of genetics- better dealt with in a book on population genetics.

Seek other, much better books to explain what Evolution is, how it works, and how we think it is true.

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A Reaffirmation of my Antitheism

Revisado: 06-02-24

A very wordy example of the craft of obfuscation of the uncomfortable issue by believers. He probably does believe some of the stuff in the Bible, but as most, ignoring or denying the inconvenient stuff. This is a good example of that skill.

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Excellent academic evaluation in words I can understand

Revisado: 03-07-24

Ideas and possible motivations which I had not before connected to Abe and his struggle with slavery

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