«Nuestros hábitos suponen una manera de suceder las cosas, una vaga coherencia del mundo» (Adolfo Bioy Casares) Habits govern much of our daily activity and we perform them without conscious decisions: we operate in a kind of automatic mode according to behaviors learned over time. This is one of the main theses you will... » read more
As I wrote in the post about Logicomix, I wanted to see what result can be achieved using a medium like comics to present and explain scientific concepts. So I tried it with another book: “Mysteries of the Quantum Universe” by the theoretical physicist Thibault Damour and the author of graphic novels Mathieu Burniat. After... » read more
One of my favorite popular science book writer is John D. Barrow. His books focuses on his two academic and research specialties: mathematics and physics. He writes about these matters quite clearly, although in this facet I think there are other authors who elaborate or take more risks to explain complex concepts to a general... » read more
I wanted to see what can be achieved by using a comic format to tell us something about science. I chose a couple of examples that I found interesting. The first work is Logicomix, a colour graphic novel with a detailed and pleasant visual style. Note: I don’t enter into the discussion of whether mathematics... » read more