How Things Are
by John Brockman | 
What Einstein Told His Barber
by Robert L. Wolke | 
Inflight Science
by Brian Clegg | 
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
by Richard Dawkins | 
How Science Works
by Judith Hann | 
What Is Science?
by Rebecca Kai Dotlich | 
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
by Randall Munroe |
The Ig Nobel Prizes
by Marc Abrahams | 
How to Fossilize Your Hamster
by Mick O'Hare | 
Beyond Reason
by A. K. Dewdney | 
Science Friction
by Michael Shermer | 
13 Things That Don't Make Sense
by Michael Brooks |
Mind Over Matter
by K. C. Cole | 
Ignorance
by Stuart Firestein | 
What If?
by Randall Munroe | 
Gulp
by Mary Roach | 
Why Is Snot Green?
by Glenn Murphy | 
The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets
by Simon Singh | 
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz
by Edward B. Burger | 
How to Build a Robot Army
by Daniel H. Wilson |
A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious contributions written by and about scientists. The book records changing attitudes within science and mirrors the interactions of science with society. Some of the contributors include Lewis Carroll, Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift, and James Clark Maxwell. This entertaining anthology covers Murphy's Law, the trial of Galileo, life on Earth, Gulliver's computer, and much more.