IMPORTANCE OF BEING INTERESTED

'Adventures in Scientific Curiosity' is the sub-title of this beautifully written elegy to science, wonder, mystery and curiosity. Robin Ince abandoned science at secondary school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But 20 years later he fell in love with it, and now he presents one of the world's most popular science podcasts. Every year he meets hundreds of the world's greatest thinkers and in his witty and often profound tour through science, he argues that scientific wonder should be for everyone. Filled with interviews featuring astronauts, comedians, teachers, quantum physicists, neuroscientists and more, as well as charting his own journey with science, his book explores why many wrongly think of the discipline as distant and difficult. From the glorious appeal of the stars above to why scientific curiosity can encourage much needed intellectual humility, this optimistic book will leave you with a thirst for intellectual adventure. Fans of Radio Four's The Infinite Monkey Cage and Professor Brian Cox who wrote the foreword, he touches on biophilia to black holes, the origins of the Universe to human mortality, armchair time travel, on coping with the size of the Universe, and looking back at the planet from a height, he asks if we are waiting for our alien saviours and how the mind is a chaos of delight. Robin's father Mr Ince is also a loyal Bibliophile customer! And our Annie went to see Robin and Professor Cox in one of their superb live performances together and until then, science had not really interested her! 384pp, illustrated paperback. Apologies for sticker.