From The End of Everything by Katie Mack and How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford to Martha Wells’s Murderbot sc-ifi series, New Scientist’s 2020 gift guide has a book for everyone
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by Katie Mack
For a bit of seasonal giving, why not look to the end of the universe? Thankfully, The End of Everything (Scribner) by Katie Mack is no apocalyptic vision but an engrossing and often funny tour of all the ways our cosmos might come to a close. Mack’s enjoyment of physics stands out – and is contagious. She describes primordial black holes as “awfully cute in a terrifying theoretical kind of way”, antimatter as “matter’s annihilation-happy evil twin” and the universe as “frickin’ weird”. All true, and Mack’s explanations …
Source: Humans - newscientist.com
