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I blame the editors who came up with a concept and missed an opportunity. This book angered me because it had a lot of potential and a lot of work obviously went into it. There is still much to do and much more to discover. But to have one solved (or partially solved) while the book was being made showed that science isn't done, isn't static. That was really exciting! The premise of the book was that in this age of instant knowledge gratification what is there left to wonder about? So setting up these conundrums of modern science was a great way of saying what we don't know. They do have a note on one of the earlier entries about the Higgs-Boson particle which was a mystery during the assembly of the book, but before it came to print evidence for that particle was found. Seventy Five difficult questions are approached by different scientists and the art is all very interesting.

There are links to all the artists websites if you take a fancy to any of them, which I did for a handful.

The book starts with astronomy and physics like questions, then geology, biology, and ends up at scientific questions that concern humans. I thought this would be a bother, but then decided that I don't need nice model based art for those classes and that these more abstract interpretations of scientific concepts might be more appealing to the non-science person who typically takes introductory courses. I thought that this book would have useful figures for introductory science courses, but all the art in the book turned out to be far more abstract than the cover. Writing Life No.I found the cover picture to be a little misleading.On the Power and Nourishment of Multidisciplinary Inquiry: Remembering Adele H.Making embryos lively: The politics of embryo personhood when fertilization happens under a microscope.The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern.‪Itemizing the technological present: A series of short entries from scholars on the classical and contemporary sites in medicine and science.‬ Series Archives Archives Contributors Recent Posts