That Make You Smarter

Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twentythree pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of yo...

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were argui...

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In cleareyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewellike blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan?s collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Forewor...