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Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Einstein's Cosmos by Michio Kaku

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  Michio Kaku’s Einstein’s Cosmos is a lively, accessible tribute to the great physicist that mixes biography with clear explanations of th...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Sparks and Photons: Two Visions of an Electrical World

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  Two very different books — Daniel Keown ’s The Spark in the Machine and Richard Feynman ’s QED — begin from the same fascinating premise...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel

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  In The Elements of Marie Curie , Dava Sobel presents the life of one of the most compelling figures in the history of science. Marie Curie...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms by Barry Packer, Book 1 of 2023

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My first book of 2023 is one I was reading off and on through most of last year. It is an odd book that is more history than science, but no...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman Book 30 of 2022

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  At the beginning of his third lecture/chapter in the book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter , Richard Feynman says: Most of the...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Book 2 of 2022: Marie Curie--a graphic novel biography in middle-school-level French

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(In past years I have written an essay about the books I read in the previous year.  As my list of books gets longer and my memory shorter, ...
Monday, December 6, 2021

Air Speed Versus Ground Speed on a Bicycle

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  Riding around the airstrip at Camp Adder, Iraq One afternoon in Iraq in 2009, I decided to ride to supper from the motor pool on a day wit...
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