DJ Strouse

My Goodreads Rating: 1 of 5 stars
Light on “science” and heavy on “popular”, this is the kind of “popular science” that makes me cringe.
The Black Hole War is a book that fears offending any reader by asking them to think for an entire chapter. Genuinely interesting yet shallow islands of physics are sprinkled in [...]

My Goodreads Rating: 2 of 5 stars
The bits on doing physics are interesting; the bits on picking up aging tigers in shady New York bars, not so much.
This book will likely appeal far more to science fanboys and groupies rather than scientists themselves. The goal of the book seems mostly to convince lay people [...]

My Goodreads Review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
A concise picture of Isaac Newton that avoids the two extremes of scientist biographies that tend to turn people off: (1) the middle school gossip approach that focuses primarily on rivalries and sexcapades and (2) the rigorous and mathtastic summary of the scientist’s major papers. This is not [...]