{"id":9999,"date":"2015-04-06T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9999"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:10:18","slug":"recommended-science-books-for-non-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/04\/06\/recommended-science-books-for-non-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Science Books for Non-Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Steven Weinberg wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/apr\/03\/steven-weinberg-13-best-science-books-general-reader\">piece for the Guardian promoting his new book<\/a> about the history of science (which seems sort of like an extended attempt to make Thony C. blow a gasket..). This included a list of recommended books for non-scientists which was, shall we say, a tiny bit problematic.<\/p>\n<p>This is a topic on which I have Opinions, so I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2015\/04\/06\/recommended-science-books-for-non-scientists\/\">recommended reading list of my own<\/a> over at Forbes. I&#8217;m more diplomatic about Weinberg than <a href=\"http:\/\/philipball.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/this-explains-everything.html\">Phillip Ball was<\/a>, but I have ego enough to say that I think my list is way better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t pretend that it&#8217;s a truly comprehensive list, though, so please, feel free to suggest books I should&#8217;ve included but didn&#8217;t, either in comments there or comments here. If I get a lot of additional recommendations, I may compile them into another list, because, hey, easy blog post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Steven Weinberg wrote a piece for the Guardian promoting his new book about the history of science (which seems sort of like an extended attempt to make Thony C. blow a gasket..). This included a list of recommended books for non-scientists which was, shall we say, a tiny bit problematic. This is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/04\/06\/recommended-science-books-for-non-scientists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recommended Science Books for Non-Scientists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,339,7,51,37,11,52,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-outreach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-science_books","category-science_writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}