BOOK REVIEW
Forced to Choose
et al., Roald Hoffmann
PETER WARD
Paleontologist whose books include On Methuselah's Trail,
The Call of Distant Mammoths and, most recently (with Donald
Brownlee), Rare Earth
As a boy I was just knocked out by the Roy Chapman Andrews books
about dinosaurs and the Gobi Desert, and as a teenager the greatest
influence was Loren Eisley. I was also very moved by the travel
books of Richard Halliburton and saw how travel writing and science
writing were often the same genre.
About once a month at Sigma Xi headquarters, we liven up the lunch hour with an American Scientist Pizza Lunch talk. In these informal lectures, scientists describe new research to nonscientists. The series is light on jargon but heavy on solid science. Each Pizza Lunch offers an in-depth look at its subject, whether it's bedbugs or the smart grid. Click below to read about and download these talks -- and to subscribe!
