Fred Bortz

Bloggers

Epidemics, Meltdowns, and Climate Change — Books about Catastrophes, Disaster, and Existential Threats

As promised in last week’s blog, our spring roundup of science books continues with three books (or four, depending on how you count them) about catastrophes.

May 15, 2018

Life

Review of The Violinist's Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

The Violinist's Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean (Little, Brown, 416 pages, $25.99, July, 2012) Reviewed by Dr.

Jul 28, 2012

Technology

Review of Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian Sample

As I type this, the physics world is anticipating a great announcement from the Large Hadron Collider that the data analysis is at least very suggestive that the elusive Higgs Boson has been seen.

Jul 4, 2012