13 Things That Dont Make Sense, Michael Brooks
13 Things That Dont Make Sense, Michael Brooks
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense
The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Author: Michael Brooks

Narrator: James Adams

Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/12/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, Science


Synopsis

Science starts to get interesting when things dont make sense. Sciences bestkept secret is that there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of celestial anomalies led Copernicus to realize that the earth goes around the sun and not the reverse, and in the 1770s, when two chemists discovered oxygen because of experimental results that defied the theories of the day. Thus if history is any precedent, we should look to todays inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. In 13 Things That Dont Make Sense, Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modernday anomalies and discover tomorrows breakthroughs.

About Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks was the host of the Michael Brooks Show and contributing host for the four-time award-winning independent political talk show The Majority Report. He was also briefly the cohost, along with Anna Kasparian, on a new YouTube show for Jacobin Magazine entitled Weekends. His writing appeared in Al Monitor, Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, among other publications. Upon Brooks's passing the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, expressed his condolences: "May his passion for social justice be remembered and inspire people around the world."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Obied

أولا - لمن ليس لديه شغف وعشق لهذا النوع من الكتب سيشعره بالتعب و الارهاق لكثافة وكثرة التفاصيل العلمية فهذا الكتاب علمي تفصيلي تاريخي بحت فلا يحاول غير المهتم او الذي لديه اهتمامات عامة ان يقرأه لانه سيمل من زخم التفاصيل ثانيا - انصح بشدة لمن ينوي قراءة الكتاب أن يقرا قبله كتاب " موجز تاريخ كل شيء ت......more

Fairly interesting account of certain anomalies in science. Dark matter, Cold Fusion and some others. A lot of what comes out here is the fact that the scientific community is as human as the rest of us. So often if findings fly in the face of "established scientific fact" the person making the find......more

Goodreads review by Mazola1

In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, Michael Brooks takes a brief look at 13 thorny problems which science has no good solution to. The problems are explained in simple terms, and include such things as death, sex, life, dark matter, and the placebo effect. What Brooks shows is that despite the best......more

Goodreads review by David

I realized, before starting this book, that some of the topics might be "old hat". I've read about the dark matter/dark energy mystery in a number of books. But I wasn't ready for the other fascinating mysteries, that truly surprised me. For example, I thought that the placebo effect was well unders......more