Yesterday at our MIT seminar, we heard a presentation from Michael Specter of The New Yorker, who will soon be out with a book called
I won't say more about its contents yet, but suffice it to say that while this book may sound a lot like The Republican War on Science or Unscientific America--all the way down to the cover image with the trusty test tube/beaker--it actually appears to be pretty different, in a good way. I'm hoping I'll have a lot more to say about it soon. Meanwhile, I've just gotten an email notification that an even bigger scientific publishing event is happening: Timed for the IPCC-Copenhagen Summit, famed climatologist James Hansen will be out with a book entitled Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance ...
