Category: Science

For years, schools have been told that more technology means better learning. But what if the opposite is true? In The Digital Delusion, neuroscientist and educator Jared Cooney Horvath challenges the growing dependence on laptops, tablets, smartphones, and AI in education. Drawing on decades of research, he argues that many digital tools can weaken attention, […]

What if a river were more than water flowing through a landscape? What if it could live, suffer, recover—and even have rights? In Is a River Alive?, acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane follows that question across three extraordinary landscapes: Ecuador’s threatened cloud forests, India’s polluted waterways, and Canada’s wild Mutehekau Shipu. Along the way, he […]

What does it take to build a machine that could unlock the deepest mysteries of the universe—and can its creators control what happens next? In The Infinity Machine, journalist Sebastian Mallaby traces the extraordinary rise of Demis Hassabis, from child chess prodigy and video-game designer to co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer. Driven […]

What if the universe’s biggest mysteries were not locked behind impossible math? In The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, physicist Sean Carroll opens a middle path between oversimplified science and graduate-level equations, showing how ordinary readers can understand the real ideas behind modern physics. From Newton’s laws and conservation of energy to spacetime, relativity, black […]

David Sedaris returns with a sharp, funny, and surprisingly tender collection of essays about modern life’s daily irritations, strange encounters, and emotional landmines. In The Land and Its People, he turns everything into comedy: a husband’s hip replacement, train-car rudeness, safari tourists hoping to witness a kill, Duolingo obsession, awkward travel companions, family grief, childhood […]

What if a forest isn’t a collection of trees, but a living community with its own underground “internet”? In Finding the Mother Tree, renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals the invisible fungal networks that link trees together—allowing them to share water, carbon, and nutrients, warn each other of danger, and even “favor” their own seedlings. […]

What if the biggest mystery isn’t out in space, but happening behind your eyes every second? In A World Appears, Michael Pollan takes on consciousness—the strange fact that the brain doesn’t just process information, it feels like something to be alive. He follows the famous “hard problem” debate, then widens the lens: Are plants sentient? […]