Skip to main content

Authors - K

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z


John Kadvany (with Baruch Fischhoff)

Daniel Kahneman

David Kaiser

James Kakalios

Michio Kaku

Lisa Kaltenegger

  • Alien Earths: planet hunting in the cosmos ****

    • Liz Kalaugher (with Matin Durrani)

    Kostas Kampourakis (with Kevin McCain)

    Nick Kanas

    Eric Kandel

    Jagmeet Kanwal (with Karen Shanor)

    Ruth Kassinger

    Wallace Kaufman (with David Deamer)

    Sam Kean

    Jonathon Keats

    Melanie Keene

    John Kelleher

  • Deep Learning (MIT Press Essential Knowledge) **

    • Laurent Keller (with Elisabeth Gordon)

  • The Lives of Ants *****

    • Kate Kelly

    Ilan Kelman

  • Disaster by Choice: how our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes ***

    • Dacher Keltner

    Dacher Keltner (with Jason Marsh and Jeremy Adam)

    Daniel Kennefick

    Carolyn Kennett

    Brian Kernighan

    Robin Kerrod (with Carole Stott)

    Apoorva Khare (with Anna Lachowska)

    James Kimmel

    Will Kinney

    Kate Kirk

    Kate Kirk (with Charles Cotton)

    Donald Kirsch

  • Innovators: 16 visionary scientists and their struggle for recognition ***

    • Irving Kirsch

  • The Emperor's New Drugs: exploding the anti-depressant myth ****

    • Brian Klaas

  • Fluke: change, chaos, and why everything we do matters ****

    • Konrad Kleinknecht

  • Einstein and Heisenberg: The controversy over quantum physics ***

    • Nicole Kobie

  • The Long History of the Future: why tomorrow's tech still isn't here ****

    • Sam Knight

  • The Premonitions Bureau: a true story ****

    • Paul and Julie Knoepfler

  • How to Build a Dragon or Die Trying: a satirical look at cutting edge science ***

    • Maria Konnikova

    Cyril Kornbluth (with Frederik Pohl)

    Helge Kragh

    Lawrence Krauss

  • Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Physics ****

    • Nina Kraus

  • Of Sound Mind: how our brain constructs a meaningful sonic world ***

    • Jeffrey Kripal

  • The Flip: who you really are and why it matters ***

    • Adam Kucharski

    Comments

    Post a Comment

    Popular posts from this blog

    We Are Eating the Earth - Michael Grunwald *****

    If I'm honest, I assumed this would be another 'oh dear, we're horrible people who are terrible to the environment', worthily dull title - so I was surprised to be gripped from early on. The subject of the first chunk of the book is one man, Tim Searchinger's fight to take on the bizarrely unscientific assumption that held sway that making ethanol from corn, or burning wood chips instead of coal, was good for the environment. The problem with this fallacy, which seemed to have taken in the US governments, the EU, the UK and more was the assumption that (apart from carbon emitted in production) using these 'grown' fuels was carbon neutral, because the carbon came out of the air. The trouble is, this totally ignores that using land to grow fuel means either displacing land used to grow food, or displacing land that had trees, grass or other growing stuff on it. The outcome is that when we use 'E10' petrol (with 10% ethanol), or electricity produced by ...
    Post a Comment
    Read more

    Battle of the Big Bang - Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Harper *****

    It's popular science Jim, but not as we know it. There have been plenty of popular science books about the big bang and the origins of the universe (including my own Before the Big Bang ) but this is unique. In part this is because it's bang up to date (so to speak), but more so because rather than present the theories in an approachable fashion, the book dives into the (sometimes extremely heated) disputed debates between theoreticians. It's still popular science as there's no maths, but it gives a real insight into the alternative viewpoints and depth of feeling. We begin with a rapid dash through the history of cosmological ideas, passing rapidly through the steady state/big bang debate (though not covering Hoyle's modified steady state that dealt with the 'early universe' issues), then slow down as we get into the various possibilities that would emerge once inflation arrived on the scene (including, of course, the theories that do away with inflation). ...
    Post a Comment
    Read more

    Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics - Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert **

    It's with a heavy heart that I have to say that I could not get on with this book. The structure is all over the place, while the content veers from childish remarks to unexplained jargon. Frank Versraete is a highly regarded physicist and knows what he’s talking about - but unfortunately, physics professors are not always the best people to explain physics to a general audience and, possibly contributed to by this being a translation, I thought this book simply doesn’t work. A small issue is that there are few historical inaccuracies, but that’s often the case when scientists write history of science, and that’s not the main part of the book so I would have overlooked it. As an example, we are told that Newton's apple story originated with Voltaire. Yet Newton himself mentioned the apple story to William Stukeley in 1726. He may have made it up - but he certainly originated it, not Voltaire. We are also told that ‘Galileo discovered the counterintuitive law behind a swinging o...
    Post a Comment
    Read more