Published by: Quirk Books
Publication Date: 18th October 2016
ISBN: 9781594749254
RRP: £11.99
Everything Is Better With Dragons
Book blogger, Autistic, Probably a Dragon
Published by: Quirk Books
Publication Date: 18th October 2016
ISBN: 9781594749254
RRP: £11.99
Published by: BenBella Books
Publication Date: 23rd February 2016
ISBN: 9781940363837
R.R.P (US): $16.99
Edition: Paperback
Continue reading “Review: ‘Mars One: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure’”
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Chemicals are scary if you don’t understand them, and people especially get worried by the ones we use regularly on food plants and in horticulture, pesticides and herbicides. I want to concentrate on just one, Glyphosate; it is used in 750 different products worldwide and is the most popular herbicide in the world [1]. It’s a broad spectrum herbicide used in domestic, agricultural and forestry settings and by every council in the country to keep the paths tidy and cut the lines in to football and cricket pitches (except in Bristol, where they’ve experimented with vinegar after a successful campaign by local campaigners to ban the use of glyphosate there by the council).
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 26th January 2016
ISBN: 9781107130579
R.R.P. (US): $29.99
From netgalley.com
Continue reading “Review: ‘Truth or Truthiness’ by Howard Wainer”
Published by: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1st November 2016
ISBN: 9780190616786
R.R.P.: $29.95
Continue reading “Review: ‘Human Evolution’ by Robin Dunbar”
Evening all,
After a busy eight days I was absolutely exhausted and my depression was acting up, so today I have done nothing. I’m feeling much better this evening so I thought I’d write a couple of reviews. I’ve been updating my writers CV and my log of submissions. It’s quite sad, I’ve had a few letters published but nothing else, except for a piece in an anthology about writing, I have two whole sentences in it. I sent a couple of queries off to local papers today but I don’t expect to hear anything, I haven’t when I’ve emailed them before. I keep looking at my submissions log and I’m sure I’ve missed things out; I know I’ve sent queries to a couple of newspapers and to local magazines, I think I must have forgotten to log them. How silly of me.
But that’s enough of that, on to the reviews. Both these books came from netgalley.com and I’ve already given my feedback on that website. I usually wait and do it all at once but I was twitchy last night and needed to distract myself.Continue reading “A couple of quick reviews”
The drug ketamine (a club drug sometimes called ‘Special K’) is legally used as an animal tranquilliser and illegally used to get high. Recent work has shown it also has a antidepressant effect. Continue reading “‘Special K’ metabolite may provide a new drug to treat depression”
When we watched a programme about the evolution of life on Earth, Mumsy asked how geologists knew how old the rocks with the fossils in them were. I said ‘isotopes’, she said ‘what?’ This is my attempt to explain radiometric dating and some of it’s uses.
We’re going to have to start at the beginning, with atoms.
Published by: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 26th April 2016
ISBN: 9780300204414
Format: Hardback
R.R.P : £16.99
Continue reading “Review: ‘Mapping the Heavens’ by Priyamvada Natarajan”
Published By: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 22nd March 2016
ISBN: 9780300204735
R.R.P. (hardback): £20.00 (but it’s cheaper online)
Another one from netgalley.com
Continue reading “Review: ‘The Secret Poisoner’ by Linda Stratman”