To answer the obvious question, yeah, I bought this on the strength of NPR Science Friday host Ira Flatow’s name. I was hoping for something like Mary Roach with a harder scientific bent; a guided tour for the layman of modern science’s leading edge. It ended up feeling like the abstract of 20 or so different books, with each chapter reading more like a summary of different experimental fields. The chapters are too brief and explores where each branch is heading so shallowly that one […]