The Alien and the Sacred
A Review of Adam Frank's The Little Book of Aliens
I really appreciate the trend in Anglophone science writing that wants to take big, oceanic concepts in the modern sciences and break them down for the average lay reader in the form of what is effectively a tractate. Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Jim Al-Khalili’s The World According to Physics, the scientific entries of Oxford’s Very …
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