13 Things That Don't Make Sense

The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Hardcover, 256 pages

Published Aug. 12, 2008 by Doubleday Canada.

ISBN:
978-0-385-66423-3
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My husband can tell you that I fully expected this book to be primarily pseudoscience. After listening to it, although I don't agree with all of the things that it said, I am firmly convinced that it is not pseudoscience.
Several ideas were introduced and actually discussed instead of past off as total nonsense, and the current beliefs and social holding is. Why was "ColdFusion" ever believed or considered to start with? The book totally discusses it, and though I may not agree with his overall conclusion, I appreciate actually hearing the sides and knowing where they come from. I am neither a philosopher nor a physicist, so my only individual conclusions are NOT as well formed and believable as those of people who have been working in the field, but I really enjoy hearing part of what the actual question is.
Do we have free will? My own belief: …

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4 stars

This book is something anyone who has an inkling of an interest in science should read. It grabs your attention from the beginning, and doesn't let go until the last bit. Even the epilogue keeps your attention! And it's little things tossed in like the phrase "sperm is cheap and plentiful" or referring to young bucks as "little fuckers" that keeps you laughing - totally unexpected from a scientific book.

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