This book goes for breadth rather than depth, providing a GCSE-level answer to almost every annoying question your children might ask you on a flight, from 'why is the sky blue?', to 'what is that funny smoke coming out of the engine?'. The science-nerd in me enjoyed it tremendously, though I fel...
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), quoted in The Making of Optical Glass in India, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India (1961) When we look back over the 4.5 billion years or so that the Earth has been around,...