Dreams of Earth and Sky

Freeman Dyson, Multco Central 500 D998d 2015

An edited collection from the New York Review of Books between 2010 and 2014. Dyson (FJD) is a thoughtful and adept writer, but I had no time to read this cover-to-cover. No index, and the lyrical chapter titles aren't specific enough to describe the chapter contents and does not mention the books that are reviewed. So, here's a list.

Our Biotech Future

• Carl Woese articles A New Biology for the Next Century Biology's Next Revolution

• p09 FJD asks why no black leaves

Writing Nature's Greatest Book

• Ivar Ekeland The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny, Pierre de Maupertuis, principle of least action

Rocket Man

• Michael J. Neufeld Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. I read the BPL copy, and corresponded with MJN about sources.

The Dream of Scientific Brotherhood

• John Gribbin The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution Royal Society, WCCLS Brookwood, Multco Central Closed Stacks B

Working for the Revolution

• Gino Segre Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics Penguin Books

The Question of Global Warming

• William Nordhaus A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies

• Ernesto Zedillo editor Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto

Struggle for the Islands

• Paul D. Stewart Galapagos: The Islands that Changed the World

Leaping into the Grand Unknown

• Frank Wilczek The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces

When Science and Poetry Were Friends

• Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder

What Price Glory?

• Steven Weinberg Lake Views: This World and the Universe

Silent Quantum Genius

• Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius ... have hardback

The Case for Far-Out Possibilities

• David Deutsch The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World

Science on the Rampage

• Margaret Wertheim Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything

How We Know

• James Gleick The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood read library book, example of Kele talking drums

The "Dramatic Picture" of Richard Feynman

• Lawrence Krauss Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science

• Ottaviani, Myrick Feynman comic book

How to Dispel Your Illusions

• Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow have

What Can You Really Know?

• Jim Holt Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story philosopher interviews

Oppenheimer: The Shape of Genius

• Ray Monk Robert Oppenheimer: inside the Centre not so interesting

• Carson and Hollinger Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections

How to Be an Underdog, and Win

• Malcolm Gladwell David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Churchill: Love & the Bomb

• Graham Farmelo Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race