欧宝娱乐

Sidereus Nuncius, as Galileo put it, looks at a range of historical and ongoing issues from a cosmic perspective. Some may quibble with whether the insights provided at always "cosmic," but if you consider that to mean looking at accepted "truths" from a big picture perspective it falls into place. Tyson looks at topics as divergent as truth & beauty, war & peace, vegetarianism & "meatarianism," gender, race, and law and order. Through each he offers some actual truths, that is, facts, that should make each of us reconsider the "truths" we so often take as real. Tyson asks a lot of questions, often not to be answered but to make us think differently. He brings his trademark bluntness and his equally trademarked wry humor to draw us away from our inherent, religious, and politically motivated biases into a place where we can reassess our beliefs. Granted, the book rambles a bit, in part because of the breadth of the coverage, but readers can't help but feel they need a new way of thinking. Alas, self-selection bias will keep many of the people who could gain from Tyson's insights from picking up the book in the first place, but that in itself helps drive the point that we need to think just a little bit better than we historical have done.

Note that I received an advanced readers copy via a 欧宝娱乐 Giveaway.