How to Fossilize Your Hamster
by Mick O'Hare | 
Inflight Science
by Brian Clegg | 
What Einstein Told His Barber
by Robert L. Wolke | 
The Canon
by Natalie Angier | 
Ignorance
by Stuart Firestein | 
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
by Stephen Hawking | 
How Things Are
by John Brockman | 
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space
by Isaac Asimov | 
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
by Richard Dawkins | 
Science Friction
by Michael Shermer | 
How Science Works
by Judith Hann | 
What Is Science?
by Rebecca Kai Dotlich | 
Beyond Reason
by A. K. Dewdney | 
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
by Carl Sagan | 
Physics for Future Presidents
by Richard A. Muller | 
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku | 
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S. Thorne | 
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
by Tom Lancaster | 
Nightwatch
by Terence Dickinson |
Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Copernicus to realise that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse. In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense Michael Brooks meets thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs. Is ninety six percent of the universe missing? If no study has ever been able to definitively show that the placebo effect works, why has it become a pillar of medical science? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement and controversy of the scientific unknown.