Dan Falk Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dan Falk

Without precision measurement, the world would be... very different from the one we live in. @jenszalai reviews @jjvincent's book, "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement From Cubits to Quantum Constants," for the @nytimes (@nytimesbooks): https://t.co/Ke8xMaukga

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Few have done as much as Carl Sagan, who died 26 years ago today, to bring science to the public. Recently, I wrote (for @NautilusMag) about the legacy of his most ambitious project--the remarkable novel (and later movie) "Contact": https://t.co/l1dXOektfC #CarlSaganDay #Contact

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In “The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight,” Suddendorf and his co-authors argue that the ability to envision future events while recalling past ones was a key development in the evolution of our species.

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[It] looks at the ways music can help us cope with trauma and depression, relieve pain, strengthen... Plenty of the book will appeal to both music fans and science buffs, but Levitin also recognizes that some degree of mystery will always surround music’s ability to move us.

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“The Overstory” (2018) won Richard Powers a Pulitzer Prize and made him "something close to a secular saint," writes @DwightGarner. Here, Garner reviews Powers' new novel, "Bewilderment," for the @nytimes (@nytimesbooks): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/books/review-bewilderment-richard-powers.html

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