J. Craig Venter Biologist and entrepreneur
I have two favourites that I would like to highly recommend. The first is Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (W. W. Norton). This book provides a significant new look at the biology of human space-flight in an entertaining and very readable format. A must-read for anyone who has thought, as I have, about humans in space. The second is Sam Harris’s book The Moral Landscape (Free Press). Harris effectively takes morality out of ownership by religions and gives it a strict scientific basis. While I intuitively know that morality is independent…
