They are exciting and powerful, on the one hand, while being anarchic and slightly terrifying on the other.’Īnother fascinating and eccentric book on what things are made of, from the author of Stuff Matters. Her latest book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, is the inside story on the discovery of the century: the sound of spacetime ringing from the collision of two black holes over a billion years ago.‘Liquids have a duality: they are neither a gas nor a solid, but something in-between. Her previous books include How the Universe Got Its Spots and a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham Prize. She is the presenter of the NOVA feature Black Hole Apocalypse, aired on PBS-this first female presenter for NOVA in 35 years. A Guggenheim Fellow, Janna has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is also the Claire Tow Professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University.
Janna Levin is the Director of Sciences and Chair of the Science Studios at Pioneer Works. His first book, Stuff Matters, was a New York Times bestseller and won the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award and the Royal Society Winton Prize. Mark Miodownik is a professor of materials and society at University College London, and director of the Institute of Making. Just as in Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik’s unique brand of scientific storytelling brings liquids and their mysterious properties to life in a captivating new way. We come to see liquids as substances of wonder and fascination, and to understand their potential for death and destruction. Throughout the trip, we encounter fluids within the plane-from a seemingly ordinary cup of tea to a liquid crystal display screen-and without, in the volcanoes of Iceland, the frozen expanse of Greenland, and the marvelous California coastline.
Set over the course of a flight from London to San Francisco, Liquid Rules offers readers a fascinating tour of these formless substances, told through the language of molecules, droplets, heartbeats, and ocean waves. But do we really understand how much we rely on liquids, or the destructive power they hold? We all know that without water we couldn’t survive, and that sometimes a cup of coffee or a glass of wine feels just as vital.
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