September 2024 - Normal Accidents - Charles Perrow
June 2024 - The Science of Spin - Roland Ennos
May 2024 - The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
April 2024 - Nuts and Bolts - Roma Agrawal
March 2024 - When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
February 2024 - Quantum Supremacy - Michio Kaku
January 2024 - The End of Everything - Kate Mack
December 2023 - To Infinity and Beyond - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
November 2023 - The Empire of the Sum - KeithHouston
October 2023 - The Disordered Mind - Eric Kandel
September 2023 - Is the Algorithm Out To Get Us? - Kenneth Wenger
June 2023- The Naturalist - E.O.Wilson
May 2023 - Chip War - Chris Miller
April 2023 - The Song of the Cell - Siddhartha Mukherjee
December 2022 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff
November 2022 - The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We Are Going - Vaclav Siml
October 2022 - Elusive - Frank Close
September 2022 - The Book of Eels - Patrik Svensson
June 2022 Moving to Higher Ground - John Englander
May 2022 - To Forgive Design - Henry Petroski
April 2022 - (FL) Thinking Better - Marcus Du Sautoy
(NY) The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
March 2022 - When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
February 2022 - High Tide on Main Street - John Englander (Covid)
November 2021 - High Tide on Main Street - John Englander
October 2021 - Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
September 2021 - The Ice at the End of the World - Jon Gertner
April 2020 - Covid move to:
March 2020 - Beyond Smoke and Mirrors, 2nd ed. - Burton Richter
February 2020 - The Creative Destruction of Medicine - Eric Topol
January 2020 - The Shape of a Life - Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
November 2019 (Dec 4) - Breakfast With Einstein - Chad Orzel
October 2019 - The Periodic Table - Primo Levi and/or The Disordered Mind - Eric Kandel
September 2019 - Exoplanets - Donald Goldsmith
June 2019 - This View of Life - David Sloan Wilson
May 2019 - Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson
April 2019 - The Evolution of Beauty - Richard O. Prum
March 2019 - Complexity - Melanie Mitchell (FL, not repeat)
February 2019 - Life After Google - George Gilder
January 2019 - Re-Engineering Humanity - Evan Singer
November 2018 - Hello World: being human in an age of algorithms - Hannah Fry
October 2018 - Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion - Fransisco Ayala
September 2018 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - Steven Brusatte
June 2018 - The Last Man Who Knew Everything - David N. Schwartz
May 2018 - Touching A Nerve - Patricia Churchland
April 2018 - Weather In The Courtroom - William H. Haggard
March 2018 - The Glass Universe - Dava Sobel
February 2018 - A Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
January 2018 - Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin
November 2017 - A Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
October 2017 - The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
September 2017 - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
June 2017 - The Island of Knowledge by Marcello Gleiser
May 2017 - Being Wrong: adventures in the margin of error by Kathryn Schulz
April 2017 - Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin (& The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe?)
March 2017 - Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps by Peter Galison
February 2017 - The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
January 2017 – The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
and/or Consciousness: a very short introduction by Susan Blackmore
November 2016 – Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
October 2016 - The Epigenetic Revolution by Nessa Carey
September 2016 - The Gene: an intimate history by Suddhertha Mukherjee
June 2016 – Einstein’s Jewish Science by Steven Gimbel
May 2016 – The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
April 2016 – The Age of Insight by Eric Kandel
March 2016 – The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
February 2016 – The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (take 2!)
January 2016 – QED: the strange theory of light and matter by Richard Feynman
2015:
Self Comes To Mind: constructing the conscious brain by Antonio Damasio:
The Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally
The Design of Everyday Things: revised and expanded edition by Don Norman
Collapse by Jarad Diamond
The Norm Chronicles: stories and numbers about danger… by Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter
The Improbability Principle: why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen… by David Hand
Complexity: a guided tour by Melanie Mitchell
Cascadia’s Fault: the coming earthquake and tsunami that could devastate…by Jerry Thompson
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Information: a history, a theory, a flood by James Gleick
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