All Books articles – Page 16

Podcast
Book Club – Adventures in the Anthropocene

2016-02-12T00:00:00Z

This month we consider the dawning of a new epoch as we discuss Gaia Vince’s Adventures in the Anthropocene
Review
The food lab: better home cooking through science

2016-02-10T00:00:00Z

Compound cookbook
Review
Dangerous diaries: exploring risks and rewards in fabrication

2016-02-01T00:00:00Z

The devil is in the detail
Review
The birth of the pill – how four pioneers reinvented sex and launched a revolution

2016-01-22T00:00:00Z

Pill pioneers
Review
The story of western science – from the writings of Aristotle to the big bang theory

2016-01-15T00:00:00Z

Scientific odyssey
Review
Atomic – the first war of physics and the secret history of the atom bomb, 1939–49

2016-01-08T00:00:00Z

Arms race
Podcast
Book Club – Thing explainer

2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our book club podcast considers simple language in science as we discuss Randall Munroe’s new book, Thing explainer.
Review
Christmas gift guide 2015

2015-12-18T00:00:00Z

Our roundup of the books you’ll want this Christmas
Review
I, superorganism – learning to love your inner ecosystem

2015-12-17T00:00:00Z

Microscopic empire
Review
Thing explainer – complicated stuff in simple words

2015-12-16T00:00:00Z

All the small things
Review
50 chemistry ideas you really need to know

2015-12-11T00:00:00Z

Need-to-know basis
Review
Science in Wonderland – the scientific fairy tales of Victorian Britain

2015-12-08T00:00:00Z

Through the looking glass
Review
Why does asparagus make your wee smell?

2015-12-04T00:00:00Z

Pungent prose
Review
Swallow this – serving up the food industry’s darkest secrets

2015-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hard to stomach
Review
Pyrite: a natural history of fool’s gold

2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

All that glitters is not gold
Review
Chemistry at home

2015-11-05T00:00:00Z

Home comforts
Review
Scientific Babel: the language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English

2015-11-05T00:00:00Z

Bridging the divide
Podcast
Book Club – Scientific Babel

2015-11-05T00:00:00Z

We probe the nature of scientific language with Michael Gordin’s bestseller, Scientific Babel
Review
Half-life: the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy

2015-10-29T00:00:00Z

Double life?
Review
To explain the world: the discovery of modern science

2015-10-21T00:00:00Z

Scientific ancestry