Readings, Rated
Natalie Angier “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”
Date: Tuesday, May 29
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State.
Participants: Natalie Angier
If you’re a non-scientist who loves poetical books about how the sciences shape everyday life–and if you, like I, are besotted with Alan Lightmans’s Dance for Two or naturalist Diane Ackerman’s poetry & essays–you might also like Natalie Angier’s “bringin’ it to the lay people” style. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s new book is The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, and it’s being described as “her love letter to science.”
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