Whether you want to know about black holes, the brain, genes or imagination, there’s one for you in our list of books we can’t wait to read this year
In this provocatively titled book, Stuart Firestein, chair of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York City, promises to disabuse readers of the myth that the scientific quest for truth is propelled by understanding. Instead, he emphasises, it is the very fact of not knowing that spurs scientists on – groping for scraps of insight and grappling with befuddling mysteries.
Science writer Jonah Lehrer’s last book, The Decisive Moment, examined…
