The Magic Of Reality

[Atheist-Lite]

I'm just one of those who don't get all "excited" when people talk science. I've tried to read several books for laymen including one by Asimov and I just get bored.

I had a real interest in physics when I was a kid. What boy of ten or twelve doesn't want to know how rockets and atomic things work? Completely destroyed by uninspired teaching. That was before health and safety stopped experiments so I'm not surprised how it is today. That's what is missing in Dawkins book...simple and exciting experiments.

[klr]

I'm just one of those who don't get all "excited" when people talk science. I've tried to read several books for laymen including one by Asimov and I just get bored.

I had a real interest in physics when I was a kid. What boy of ten or twelve doesn't want to know how rockets and atomic things work? Completely destroyed by uninspired teaching. That was before health and safety stopped experiments so I'm not surprised how it is today. That's what is missing in Dawkins book...simple and exciting experiments.

I'm assuming you mean "explosions"

[Atheist-Lite]

I'm just one of those who don't get all "excited" when people talk science. I've tried to read several books for laymen including one by Asimov and I just get bored.

I had a real interest in physics when I was a kid. What boy of ten or twelve doesn't want to know how rockets and atomic things work? Completely destroyed by uninspired teaching. That was before health and safety stopped experiments so I'm not surprised how it is today. That's what is missing in Dawkins book...simple and exciting experiments.

I'm assuming you mean "explosions"

I felt I was being mauled by a dead sheep reading the book - so what a kid of twelve will make of it?

[Animavore]

Just read the first chapter. Does a good job of explaining the scientific method and how we know what's real finishing with a brief description of natural selection. It's nice and colourful and the illustrations whimsical.

[borealis]

I wonder what languages that will be translated Seems like too much words to translate it myself.

[borealis]

Seriously. Is there some place I could ask that?

[Animavore]

Ask at www.richarddawkins.net

[Tero]

My college son has my Selfish Gene. He got to page 20. Maybe this is better.

[Animavore]

My college son has my Selfish Gene. He got to page 20. Maybe this is better.

It has pictures

But seriously, he might find it patronising if you gave it to him.

[Matty]

I'm just one of those who don't get all "excited" when people talk science. I've tried to read several books for laymen including one by Asimov and I just get bored.

did you try bill brysons?



i just pre ordered this for my boy and i dont really see what the issue is. Dawkins is a damn good communicator and the illustrations promise to be brilliant.
i assume its an expansion on this which is beautiful in its clarity and certainly not something that will fly over the heads of many school kids.

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comment ... ter_about/

[Matty]

That's what is missing in Dawkins book...simple and exciting experiments.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fun+science+for+kids


oh look, page after page after page of kid science websites.

honestly, if you cant be arsed making mega bubble solution or bicarbonate explosion or a non newtonian solution for your kid, or even looking at some bugs though a magnifying glass, or fucking about with a laser pointer and some mirrors, then you probably are missing the point of getting the book in the first place.

[Tero]

I'm just one of those who don't get all "excited" when people talk science. I've tried to read several books for laymen including one by Asimov and I just get bored.

I suggest you entertain yourself with soap operas and tabloid papers. They seem to at least record the famous people doing the baby experiment.