All Review articles – Page 3
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ReviewUnited We Are Unstoppable: 60 Inspiring Young People Saving Our World
Light on the science but full of surprising insights as young climate activists from 41 countries tell their stories
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ReviewHow to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
The perfect ammunition to respond to racial discrimination should you encounter someone trying to justify their prejudice with science
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ReviewDrink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
A book questioning the normalcy of drinking, exploring personal and policy responses to excessive alcohol consumption
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ReviewThe Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
A book that aims to opens readers’ eyes to the fact-bending methods corporations employ to make profit
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ReviewThe Chemical Reaction
Badass chemical engineer Jaqueline Silver’s second outing has it all: explosives, villains and periodic table-based code cracking
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ReviewHalf Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
The story of a radioactive element from its rise to a cure-all ingredient to the downfall of an entire industry
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ReviewDeath By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
A book for anyone with an interest in science, death, Elizabethan literature and British history – or all of the above
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ReviewFilm: Picture a Scientist
What is it really like being a scientist who does not fit the ‘traditional’ image or the man in the white lab coat?
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ReviewProject Cleansweep: Beyond the Post Military Landscape of the United Kingdom
A deep-dive into how the UK’s chemical and biochemical weapons impacted – and still impact – the British landscape and its citizens
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ReviewHollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
Your favourite disaster movies turned into case studies for the various ways in which all we are all doomed
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ReviewA Small Illustrated Guide to the Universe
The book designed to fill the reader with awe at the natural world, accessible to all ages and scientific backgrounds
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ReviewThe Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop
What have viruses, gun violence and the ice bucket challenge in common?
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ReviewTV series: How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Docudrama tells the story of two rogue forensic lab chemists whose separate crimes led to a massive miscarriage of justice in Massachusetts
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ReviewFramed by a Smoking Gun: The Explosive Life of Colonel B D Shaw
An enchanting memoir of the chemist whose explosive lectures were almost shut down on safety grounds
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ReviewTV series: The Salisbury Poisonings
A gripping, fact-based drama about the poisoning of a former Russian spy, showing eerie parallels to the current coronavirus pandemic
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ReviewFentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
Journalist Ben Westhoff lifts the lid on the biggest drugs crisis to have ever hit the western world
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ReviewFilm: Spaceship Earth
A fascinating cautionary tale about a grand plan to build a self-sustaining replica of Earth’s ecosystem
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ReviewDr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future
Space archaeologist Alice Gorman explores the cultural significance of the things we have left behind
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ReviewThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
A book about world-changing inventions, crammed with fascinating stories you’ve probably never heard of
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ReviewHandprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention
An informative book that is more technical account than personal biography