Just in time for Non-Fiction November, Lauren and Jenny get together to talk about their reads for Science September (#scienceseptember) and the reads we envied from other people. The title of the episode comes from Carl Sagan, referring to taking children to the library to help answer their questions: "Every question is a cry to understand the world." Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 133: To Understand the World. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher NEW! Listen through Spotify Pictured: Only some of the fantastic science books read in September Books Discussed: Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks The Great Quake by Henry Fountain The Song of Trees by David George Haskell The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben 1997 article in Nature about mycorrhizal fungal networks The Overstory by Richard Powers Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the art of growing a backbone by Juli Berwald The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney (not linking because this has been debunked and should be considered shenanigans) The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan Waking Up Podcast #135: Navigating Sex and Gender (Sam Harris) Light of the Stars by Adam Frank How to Tame a Fox by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean by Jonathan White The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One by Sylvia A. Earle Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter by Ellen J. Prager The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean M. Carroll The Physics of Everyday Things by James Kakalios The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Susskind Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen Petranek Your Kids Might Live on Mars. Here's How They'll Survive. (Stephen Petranek TED Talk) Mars (tv series on NatGeo) The Poetic Species by Edward O. Wilson and Robert Haas Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Science and Power of Dreams by Matthew Walker Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club by Eileen Pollack It’s All Relative by A.J. Jacobs Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by William Maples The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Seeds by Thor Hanson The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species by Richard Ellis The Beauty in the Beast: Britain’s Favourite Creatures and the People Who Love Them by Hugh Warwick (not available in the USA) The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis Thanks to the following readers in Instagram for sharing their #scienceseptember reads! @loreofbooks @reallifereading @rhode_reads @madeo