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 Reviews Lamarck's EvolutionFebruary 2009
At the start of the 19th century, French scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck suggested characteristics acquired by an organism during its lifetime could be passed on to its offspring.  The Black Hole WarFebruary 2009
The “Black Hole War” of the title was a deep rift that developed between the theories of general relativity (Hawking) and quantum mechanics (Susskind).  Genomes and What to Make of ThemFebruary 2009
The book sets the scene with Austrian monk Gregor Mendel and follows the history of the science of genetics to Craig Venter, the maverick made famous by the Human Genome Project.  World Without End?February 2009
Ian Whyte's most recent book covers 12,000 years of human history, looking at how the fate of some civilisations depended on the interaction between societies and their environments.  Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of BirdsFebruary 2009
Would dinosaurs have tasted like chicken? John Long, a palaeontologist at Museum Victoria, thinks so.  Final TheoryFebruary 2009
An editor at Scientific American, this is Mark Alpert’s first science fiction novel, in which Einstein has actually found a way to reconcile gravity with the sub-atomic forces.  Egypt: New Discoveries & Ancient MysteriesFebruary 2009
Do not watch this expecting a glamorous British documentary of Egypt and it's mysteries.  Doctor AtomicFebruary 2009
The new opera, Doctor Atomic, brings to life the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the Manhattan Project on the eve of the first atomic tests in the deserts of New Mexico in July 1945.  Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of ChinaNovember 2008
Everybody nowadays knows that the Chinese invented damn near everything: printing, gunpowder, compasses, wrought iron, navigation, chess, perfumed toilet paper ...  The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity: How the Modern World is Making Us FatNovember 2008
Don't worry, this is not another diatribe on what you are doing or not doing that will inevitably lead to your rapid expansion and premature end. And there are no diet schemes or exercise plans.  Manufactured LandscapesNovember 2008
This eerie film follows renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky through China, as he captures the effects of its massive industrial revolution.  The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's AnatomyNovember 2008
The Anatomist is not just the story of the 1858 medical textbook we call Gray's Anatomy (originally titled Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical).  Life In His Hands: The True Story of a Neurosurgeon and a PianistNovember 2008
Few diagnoses could be more terrifying than that of a brain tumour. Susan Wyndham tells us that brain cancer is the ninth most common cancer in adults and, after leukaemia, the most common in children.  On the Beauty of Science: A Nobel Laureate Reflects on the Universe, God, and the Nature of DiscoveryNovember 2008
Herbert A. Hauptman is a distinguished mathematician who won the 1985 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. His groundbreaking 1950s work in determining crystal structures has since assisted in the development of many powerful medical drugs.  Royal Space Force: The Wings of HonneamiseNovember 2008
The Wings of Honneamise is the story of the struggle to put the first man into space, set on an alternative Earth with similar but different history and technology. This classic anime was originally released in Japan in 1987 by Gainax, the Japanese studio now famous for the series Neon Genesis Evangelion. 
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