Collective Blogging on 6 March 2008 for World Book Day UK
Scott Keir
Wednesday, 05 March 2008 14:18 UTC
A bit last minute, but Thursday 6 March 2008 is World Book Day – in the UK at least, the rest of the world has it on 23 April (this split happened years ago as usually UK schools are on holiday on 23 April for Easter).
Inspired by the 14 February blogathon, would anyone be up for blogging about books and science tomorrow? Maybe even about science books? What’s your favourite, what most inspires you, what’s the science book you wish you’d written (or had never been written)?
I am the manager of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, but I mainly blog and read science books for fun, and thought others might like to too?
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I just realized (a few days too late) that I would have liked to promote a wonderful recent book about science. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann was a bestseller in Germany in 2006 and 2007, but is probably not as popular in English-speaking countries. It is a novel about two great German scientists (Friedrich Gauß and Alexander von Humboldt). The language is just wonderful (at least in the original German text) and the book tells the reader a lot about how science was carried out in the early 19th century.
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You raise a very interesting point, Martin – the bias towards anglophonie in pop-science publication. Perhaps there are some other gems in foreign languages that really ought to be translated into English?
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Henry,
another recent popular science book that is extremely popular in Germany is The Swarm by Frank Schätzing. Does he have readers in English-speaking countries?
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Hey Martin- Wow, Nice blog- I can’t believe I found you here- its been a long time since Boston!!
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Helene, what a pleasant surprise. He should talk some more via email. Nature Network is a place to meet people from your scientific past.
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World Book Day and The Commons
There are some great links in this very recent blog post from iCommons about World Book Day, on April 23 2008.
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