• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
Walking Commentary

Walking Commentary

Thoughts while waiting to walk from Manchester to Rome in 2022

  • ManRom22
  • Latest Comments
  • Archives

royal institution

Belated Science Reads

October 9, 2020 by Simon Robinson 5 Comments

Science and experience both tell us that it may become harder to learn as we get older. On the grounds that it’s never too late to learn, I was thinking about science books overnight. Which is the best? Could it be The Selfish Gene? Or perhaps The Periodic Table? Maybe The Emperor of All Maladies? Or Factfulness?

So I thought a web search would help remind me of some that I have read. Where better to start than the annual Royal Society Prizes for Science Books?

[Read more…] about Belated Science Reads

Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, christmas lectures, hans rosling, lewis thomas, photo, primo levi, royal institution, royal society

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe

You’ve been successfully subscribed to our newsletter!

Recent Comments

  • Simon Robinson on Via Graffiti
  • Lia Mills on Via Graffiti
  • Lia Mills on Portraits aka Dyads
  • ANN MARIE HOURIHANE on Chapbook Subscription News
  • Peter on Fantastic Leaves Sent

Categories

  • Anchoritism
  • Fake Memoir
  • ManRom2021
  • Photozines

Tags

ahmet altan albert einstein bbc birds bird watching booklink bracket books ireland brian greene burma cancer chapbook colum mccann computing Covid-19 dog dun laoghaire fabhappy flowers food geology geophysics hans rosling ireland irish times issued lia mills london movies nobel prize pandemic PEN international photo photography photos photozines plants poetry popular sahara simonscarves the uplift kit travel ungrievable volcano walking

Recent Posts

  • Willow
  • Inversions
  • Via Graffiti
  • Portraits aka Dyads
  • Broccoli Raw

Archives

  • June 2022 (1)
  • May 2022 (1)
  • April 2022 (1)
  • March 2022 (1)
  • February 2022 (1)
  • January 2022 (2)
  • December 2021 (2)
  • November 2021 (1)
  • October 2021 (1)
  • September 2021 (2)
  • August 2021 (1)
  • July 2021 (2)
  • May 2021 (9)
  • April 2021 (30)
  • March 2021 (31)
  • February 2021 (28)
  • January 2021 (31)
  • December 2020 (31)
  • November 2020 (30)
  • October 2020 (31)
  • September 2020 (30)
  • August 2020 (31)
  • July 2020 (31)
  • June 2020 (30)
  • May 2020 (31)
  • April 2020 (30)
  • March 2020 (31)

Footer

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
  • ManRom22
  • Latest Comments
  • Archives

Subscribe

You’ve been successfully subscribed to our newsletter!

Copyright © 2022 · Revolution Pro on Genesis Framework