“Almost made me want to become a scientist again,” says Trevor Pinch of Steven Strogatz’s Sync: The emerging science of spontaneous order (Theia). Pinch is professor of science and technology studies at Cornell University and author of Analog Days (Harvard, 2002). He loves Strogatz’s irreverent approach to mainstream science.
Pinch is on sabbatical for six months in Berlin so he’s catching up on a few novels. One favourite is W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (Vintage, 2002): “It captures the almost accidental connections between people and places in disrupted lives, weaving between details of rural East Anglia, the Swiss…
