https://jonathanmckay.com/tags/science/Recent content in Science on Jonathan McKayHugoen-usFri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/protector-foreigner-%2314/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/protector-foreigner-%2314/No Cake, Still Interesting I remember my birthday upon turning felicitous 9, and I can tell you it was a big deal. Protector spends much of its timehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/how-to-take-smart-notes/Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/how-to-take-smart-notes/A good book, except I don't really think about the information I consume, and I'm not sure where to carve out the time, since I'm only consuminghttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/project-hail-mary/Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/project-hail-mary/Space Sucks, Science is Fun Every science nerd dreams that someday their years of learning esoteric knowledge will pay off. So for many, the real worldhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/exhalation/Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/exhalation/12th book of 2021: Sci-Factoids To be a nerdy American millennial is to have unprecedented privilege in asking 'what if?' Not only do we benefit fromhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry/Watch cosmos instead. Or take even a little bit of time to read a full book on the subject.https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-mother/Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-mother/81st, 82nd books of 2020: Work = Success China does well with standard education. In the 2018 PISA results, China Singapore, Macao, and Hong Kong scoredhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-precipice/Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-precipice/43rd book of 2020. This is how the world ends. The Precipice is about ways in which humanity could perish. According to Ord, the chances that humanityhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/mind-of-the-raven/Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/mind-of-the-raven/3rd book of 2020. Sometimes I wonder if every topic is interesting when the right level of curiosity is brought to bear. Bernd Heinrich makes Ravens, andhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-fall-of-hyperion-hyperion-cantos-%232/Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/the-fall-of-hyperion-hyperion-cantos-%232/Hyperion was great, but only half the story. This book changes the narrative structure to a first person account from M. Severn, and a third personhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/hyperion-hyperion-cantos-%231/Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/hyperion-hyperion-cantos-%231/Came into this book with no expectations and was pleasantly surprised. A series of short stories that hang together better than cloud Atlas, withhttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/embassytown/Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/embassytown/Mystifying in the way good scifi should be. More fun to think about than it was to read, but so many good ideas! Also, the closest you'll come to readinghttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/who-owns-the-future/Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/who-owns-the-future/The best book I've read so far about society-level changes that are happening due to internet technology. That would be higher praise if I had read morehttps://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-brief-history-of-time/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://jonathanmckay.com/reviews/a-brief-history-of-time/This book definitely has a target audience - somebody who hasn't read anything about theoretical physics, doesn't want to think about it too hard, but at