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The Book Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking by Simon Quellen Field The Premise This books purports to explain the hows and whys of cooking in terms of the chemistry going on. It's geared toward non-scientists as an "easy-to-follow primer." The Naming of Things It
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The Book The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity, by Steven Strogatz The Premise Steven Strogatz, a mathematics professor at Cornell, had a math blog (On the Elements of Math) at the New York Times for a while in 2010. This is a collection
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Chad Orzel of the Uncertain Principles blog announced late last year that he is working on a book about thinking like a scientist.1 In the announcement post he explained: The core argument … is that the process of science– looking at the world, thinking of possible explanations for how it