kayote reviewed Optical allusions by Jay Hosler
Review of 'Optical allusions' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This book alternates between light hearted comics and science prose chapters. Wrinkles the brain is looking for the Magic Eye he lost somewhere in human imagination. Along the way he'll eat a thousand years of little mini wrinkles with Darwin, fight a giant robot eye with a cow-themed superhero, and meet Clio the muse of history-my favorite character-- (and Cassandra the blind fish). The comics are fun on their own, and I admit my first read through I skipped all the non-comic bits, but they all have some bit of science in there somewhere. Darwin is the predator that attacks such that an eye is adaptive, and you can beat an atomically accurate eye if you know how to swim and stay in the blind spot. The science prose digs in to really explain what's going on. While the prose chapters kinda look like textbooks, they are the well written …
This book alternates between light hearted comics and science prose chapters. Wrinkles the brain is looking for the Magic Eye he lost somewhere in human imagination. Along the way he'll eat a thousand years of little mini wrinkles with Darwin, fight a giant robot eye with a cow-themed superhero, and meet Clio the muse of history-my favorite character-- (and Cassandra the blind fish). The comics are fun on their own, and I admit my first read through I skipped all the non-comic bits, but they all have some bit of science in there somewhere. Darwin is the predator that attacks such that an eye is adaptive, and you can beat an atomically accurate eye if you know how to swim and stay in the blind spot. The science prose digs in to really explain what's going on. While the prose chapters kinda look like textbooks, they are the well written kind. My only complaint with the book is the ending was a little lame--if that's what was going on, why didn't they just make 3? :P (I guess the grant only covered one?) Recommended as an entertaining lark through part of science I didn't know I wanted to read about!