Week Forty Four: We Need To Talk About Kelvin

We Need To Talk About Kelvin (What everyday things tell us about the universe) by Marcus Chown is a science book for the uneducated about science. There are two things wrong with this concept for me.

Firstly I am not uneducated about science, not in my lifetime, certainly not in my year of books - so this was covering a lot of ground I had trod before. One or two new things - like the how the burning age of the sun is calculated, for example. Not much else I didn't already know and therefore not that interested in re-reading (for the nth time).

Secondly it's not that interesting, it gets into too much detail in some places, not enough in others and the authour sounds like one of those uber keen science geeks trying to convince you that what they find exciting you will too - how can you not?

Meh - not bad, just not good.

Next Week is unknown.