I Read Many Things

Tag: Physics

  • A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking

    For someone who has read dozens of science books in the past few years, it might be a bit surprising to hear that I hadn’t read Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” before now. It’s widely considered to be one of the most influential science books – destined to the public – ever written.   Clearly…

  • Cosmos, by Carl Sagan

    By now you’ve figured out that I really enjoy the work of science communicators. The teacher in me appreciates how some experts manage to explain complex subjects in a clear and accessible vocabulary. For a lot of people, the term science communicator is synonymous with Carl Sagan, who delighted the generation before mine with the…

  • Existential Physics, by Sabine Hossenfelder

    Working with children, I get to hear a lot of questions. More importantly, I get asked a lot of questions I certainly don’t have the answer to, either because I just do not have the required knowledge, or simply because there is actually no answer. A good example I heard this year is “Was there…

  • Why does E = mc^2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

    Is there a more famous equation in all of science? Even kids have told me lately that E was equal to mc2 (they’ll say the two out loud as “two” and not as “squared” when they are younger) and usually feel like geniuses for even remembering the order of the letters. I probably did that…