= Dreams of Earth and Sky =
=== Freeman Dyson, Multco Central 500 D998d 2015 ===

An edited collection from the [[ http://nybooks.com | 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 [[ https://mmbr.asm.org/content/mmbr/68/2/173.full.pdf | A New Biology for the Next Century]] [[ https://arxiv.org/pdf/q-bio/0702015 | Biology's Next Revolution ]]
 . p09 FJD asks why no black leaves

=== Writing Nature's Greatest Book ===
 . Ivar Ekeland [[ https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo4100790.html | The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny ]], Pierre de Maupertuis, principle of least action

=== Rocket Man ===
 .  Michael J. Neufeld [[ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/120874/von-braun-by-michael-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 [[ https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/54819/the-fellowship/9780141902944.html | The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution ]] Royal Society, WCCLS Brookwood, Multco Central Closed Stacks B
  . I read about William Gilbert (magnetism and primacy of experiments), Galileo, Newton (secretive, jealous of Robert Hooke).  
  . Gribbin is fonder of Hooke than Newton, crediting Hooke with making the Royal Society work.

=== Working for the Revolution ===
 . Gino Segre [[ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292780/faust-in-copenhagen-by-gino-segre/9780143113737 | Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics ]] Penguin Books

=== The Question of Global Warming ===
 . William Nordhaus [[ https://cowles.yale.edu/publications/books/question-balance-weighing-options-global-warming-policies | A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies ]]
 .  Ernesto Zedillo editor [[ https://www.brookings.edu/book/global-warming/ | Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto ]]

=== Struggle for the Islands ===
 . Paul D. Stewart [[ https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300122305/galapagos | Galapagos: The Islands that Changed the World ]]

=== Leaping into the Grand Unknown ===
 . Frank Wilczek [[ http://www.lightnessofbeingbook.com/ | The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces ]]

=== When Science and Poetry Were Friends ===
 . Richard Holmes [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Wonder | The Age of Wonder ]]

=== What Price Glory? ===
 . Steven Weinberg [[ http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674062306 | Lake Views: This World and the Universe ]]

=== Silent Quantum Genius ===
 . Graham Farmelo [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangest_Man | The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius ]] ... have hardback

=== The Case for Far-Out Possibilities ===
 . David Deutsch [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_of_Infinity | The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World ]]

=== Science on the Rampage ===
 . Margaret Wertheim [[ http://physicsonthefringe.com/ | Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything ]]

=== How We Know ===
 . James Gleick [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory,_a_Flood | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood ]]  read library book, example of Kele talking drums

=== The "Dramatic Picture" of Richard Feynman ===
 . Lawrence Krauss [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Man:_Richard_Feynman%27s_Life_in_Science | Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science ]]
 . Ottaviani, Myrick [[ https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781596438279 | Feynman ]] comic book

=== How to Dispel Your Illusions ===
 . Daniel Kahneman [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow | Thinking Fast and Slow ]] have

=== What Can You Really Know? ===
 . Jim Holt [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Does_the_World_Exist%3F | Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story ]] philosopher interviews

=== Oppenheimer: The Shape of Genius ===
 . Ray Monk [[ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/116103/robert-oppenheimer-by-ray-monk/ | Robert Oppenheimer: inside the Centre ]] not so interesting
 . Carson and Hollinger [[ https://www.worldcat.org/title/reappraising-oppenheimer-centennial-studies-and-reflections/oclc/64385611 | Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections ]]

=== How to Be an Underdog, and Win ===
 . Malcolm Gladwell [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Goliath_(book) | David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants ]]

=== Churchill: Love & the Bomb ===
 .  Graham Farmelo [[ https://grahamfarmelo.com/churchills-bomb/ | Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race ]]