Tag: science
-
Cosmos, Contact, Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan has long been a hero of mine. It just occurred to me that Brian Cox is a modern-day version and indeed Cox has said that Sagan’s TV series Cosmos changed his life, inspiring him to dedicate it to science. Another hero, Richard Dawkins, is quoted as saying that he wishes he had written…
-
Nuts & Bolts part II
Nuts & Bolts; Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), by Roma Agrawal, Hodder & Stoughton, 2023. This book continued to enlighten and inspire me to the end. There is no banging of drums, but the world view imparted by my Western education at least (and I’m guessing not much has…
-
Nuts & Bolts
Nuts & Bolts; Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), by Roma Agrawal, Hodder & Stoughton, 2023, is a book I asked for and was given on my birthday last year. I was hopeless at physics at school. Our teacher, Mr Baker, seemed to have long since lost interest in the…