John McPhee is well known for long lucid articles, many published in The New
Yorker. He is not strictly a science writer. But in The Second John McPhee
Reader (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.50, ISBN 0 374 25686 1) he tackles
subjects such as plate tectonics with intense enjoyment and a vivid eye, lacing
information with humour and much racy, professional conversation with the
geologists concerned. Marvellous stuff.
More from Â鶹´«Ã½
Explore the latest news, articles and features
Physics
We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
Features
Technology
Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
News
Health
Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
Insight
Mathematics
Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
Culture
Popular articles
Trending Â鶹´«Ã½ articles
1
Can we ‘vaccinate’ ourselves against stress?
2
Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret
3
Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good
4
The monstrous number sequences that break the rules of mathematics
5
The biggest threat to Chernobyl is no longer radiation
6
Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
7
We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI
8
Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion
9
Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection
10
Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing
