• Question: What Is YoUr FaVoUrIItE sicentific book?

    Asked by conor :) to Theo, Philip, Kerry, Ali, Alex on 14 Nov 2014.
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      Kerry O'Shea answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I really enjoyed Flatland by Edwin Abbott, it’s actually a maths book, and it’s about life in a 2-dimensional world!

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      Alex Pool answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Flatland is a brilliant book. Mine is probably a book by Robert Weinberg on Cancer as he explains it all in a really simple way – most try and make it more complicated.

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      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      That’s easy: the Feynman Lectures.
      It’s actually a series of volumes in which my hero (see another answer) Richard P. Feynman explains almost everything we know in physics and explains it so well that it all seems incredibly simple.

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      Theo Laftsoglou answered on 16 Nov 2014:

      The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson. Along with the Feynman lectures!

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      Alison Thomson answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Every now and then New Scientist publish a book filled with quirky science questions – my favourite book is Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?

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