How to Speak Science
Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy until Proven Brilliant

I can't remember a book where my mental picture of what the star rating would be has varied so much. At first glance, it looked like a solid 4 star title. It looks fun (despite the odd title - it sounds like it's a book on public speaking for geeks) and a flick through showed that it covers a huge a......more

DNF'd 15% I couldn't stand another minute of jokes about "People" magazine. There were 4 in the first 15% of the book. Along with a lot of other terrible jokes. I don't feel like I was learning anything new from this book. Not because there wasn't new to me information but because all of the jokes,......more

The best way to describe this book is to declare it as fun. The author makes the subject enjoyable and easy to read and digest. This would be an excellent book to engage students into the study of science.......more

Muy muy muy entretenido, y divertido. Es una breve y agradable historia de la ciencia a través de los años donde toca biografías de grandes mentes, sus inventos y algunas historias curiosas alrededor de descubrimientos que cambiaron la forma de ver la ciencia. Lo único que no me encantó fue que a ve......more

Definitely interesting, although the abysmal attempts at humour were terribly distracting, because they weren't funny at all. My Kindle counted 15 occurrences of the "People magazine" joke (which I'm calling joke for want of another word), but they felt like 50. And I kept waiting for a punchline th......more