That’s right. After nearly two years of hemming and hawing, the 2010 TWIS Science Music Compilation CD is available.
Cover artwork thanks to Tony Steele!
2010 TWIS Science Music Compilation tracklist
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Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in AmericaShawn Lawrence Otto More than ever we need science to find solutions to the increasingly complex, daunting and urgent problems facing us all. At the same time, antiscience forces are ever stronger and science ever more sidelined in the thinking of citizens and politicians. In January’s book, Shawn Lawrence Otto investigates the estrangement of society from science. buy from: amazon.com amazon.ca amazon.co.uk |
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Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are NecessaryStewart Brand In September’s book, Stewart Brand argues that our best hope is a radical environmentalism that embraces urbanisation, genetic engineering, nuclear power and climate engineering. Is he right? Read the book and discuss the issues! buy from:amazon.com amazon.ca amazon.co.uk |
Catch up with the bookclub this summer! Here’s a list of books we have read:
November, 2009
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann – Biology, Anthropology
December, 2009
The Canon by Natalie Angier – General Science
January, 2010
The Earth After Us – What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? by Jan Zalasiewicz – Earth Science
February, 2010
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel L. Everett – Biology, Anthropology
March, 2010
Collider by Paul Halpern – Physics
April, 2010
Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs by Gregory Benford & Elisabeth Malartre – Technology
May, 2010
From Eternity To Here: The Quest For the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll – Physics
June, 2010
The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry by Mario Livio – Physics
July, 2010
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing The Climate and What It Means Fro Life On Earth by Tim Flannery – Earth Science
August, 2010
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals by Franz B. M. de Waal – Biology
September, 2010
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzgold – Technology
October, 2010
Dark Banquet by Bill Schutt – Biology
November, 2010
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre – General Science
December, 2010
Apocalypse – Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of god by Amos Nur – General Science
January, 2011
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History by David Beerling – Ecology
February, 2011
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá – Human Sexuality
March, 2011
Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s Mysterious Moon Explored by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton – Planetary Science
April, 2011
The Chemistry of Life by Steven Rose – Biology, Chemistry
May, 2011
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker – Psychology
June, 2011
Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner – Psychology
And, here are some additional books we think are worth your precious summer time…
Biology
Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Sean Carroll)
The Extended Phenotype (Richard Dawkins)
Life: An Unauthorised Biography (Richard Fortey)
Microcosmos (Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan)
Physics
The Fabric of Reality (David Deutsch)
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Richard Feynman)
Black Holes and Time Warps (Kip Thorne)
Deep History
Genes, Peoples and Languages (Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza)
Origins Reconsidered (Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin)
Space
A Man on the Moon (Andrew Chaikin)
Mapping Mars (Oliver Morton)
Science Fiction
Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
Permutation City (Greg Egan)
Mars Trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon)
Schismatrix (Bruce Sterling)
Time (Stephen Baxter)
Old Man’s War (John Scalzi)
The Uplift Series (David Brin)
Thinking
The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan)
Consilience (Edward Wilson)
Other
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)
Mapping the Deep (Robert Kunzig)
Feel free to add to our list!
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Risk: The Science and Politics of FearDan Gardner Every day the media bombard us with new causes for anxiety, yet everyday life has never been safer. Why is there such a divergence between statistics and perception, and what can we do about it? Find out in June’s book! buy from:amazon.com (kindle) amazon.ca amazon.co.uk |
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human NatureSteven Pinker What are the deep structures of language? What are the deep structures of thought? What insights about thought can we gain by studying language? In May’s book, Steven Pinker takes us into the heart of these questions! buy from:amazon.com amazon.ca amazon.co.uk |
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The Chemistry of LifeSteven Rose At its most fundamental level, life is chemistry. In our book for April, Steven Rose takes us on a guided tour of proteins, lipids, sugars, nucleic acids and other molecules, and explains their role in the structure and metabolism of our cells. buy from:amazon.com amazon.ca amazon.co.uk |
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Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s Mysterious Moon ExploredRalph Lorenz, Jacqueline Mitton On January 14, 2005, the ESA Huygens probe ended a two billion mile, seven year journey by plunging into the atmosphere of Saturn’s enigmatic moon Titan. The data it returned transformed our picture of that distant world. In March’s book, follow the story of Huygens and its Cassini mothership from their inception to the analysis of their remarkable observations. buy from:amazon.com amazon.ca amazon.co.uk |
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