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Title: Eureka

Subtitle: Discovering Your Inner Scientist

Author: Chad Orzel

Narrator: Neil Hellegers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Even in the 21st century, the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common yet dangerous misconception, getting us off the hook for not knowing or caring how the world works. How did science become so divorced from our everyday experience? Is scientific understanding so far out of reach for the nonscientists among us? As science popularizer Chad Orzel argues in Eureka, even the people who are most forthright about hating science are doing science, often without even knowing it. Orzel shows that science isn't something alien and inscrutable, beyond the capabilities of ordinary people; it's central to the human experience. Every human can think like a scientist and regularly does so in the course of everyday activities. The disconnect between this reality and most people's perceptions is mostly due to the common misconception that science is a body of (boring, abstract, often mathematical) facts. In truth science is best thought of as a process: Looking at the world, thinking about what makes it work, testing your mental model by comparing it to reality, and telling others about your results. The facts that we too often think of as the whole of science are merely the products of this scientific process. Eureka shows that this process is one we all regularly use and something that everybody can do. By revealing the connection between the everyday activities people do - solving crossword puzzles, playing sports, or even watching mystery shows on television - and the processes used to make great scientific discoveries, Orzel shows that if we recognize the process of doing science as something familiar, we will be better able to appreciate scientific discoveries and use scientific facts and thinking to help address the problems that affect us all.

Members Reviews:

Doing Science Everywhere

Interesting explanation of the ways different aspects of doing science are also used in our own lives. I had originally read this as a library book but I liked it enough that I then purchased it.

A fun excursion through science in everyday life

Chad Orzel offers an impressive new book showing how science is not just an abstract exercise, but rather an essential part of our everyday lives. From crossword puzzles to football games, he expertly offers examples of the influence of scientific ideas on familiar activities. Even as a scientist, I'm finding it a delightful way to learn more about how science touches our world in unexpected ways.

-Paul Halpern, Author of Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics