In July, Ralph Cicerone takes up the presidency of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. Reading right now? Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos (Knopf, 2004) is “90 per cent finished”, and Peter Raven and George Johnson’s Biology (third edition, McGraw Hill, 1992) is “10 per cent” done.
Other recent science reads include Einstein Defiant by Edmund Blair Bolles (Joseph Henry, 2004), Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant (Simon & Schuster, 2002), Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 2003), An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison (Knopf, 1995), and William Cronon’s natural and economic history of the…
