https://pithybooks.com/tags/science/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “science”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bryson asks how we know what we know, from atoms to continents, with humor and awe. https://pithybooks.com/books/origin/ https://pithybooks.com/books/origin/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Robert Langdon chases Edmond Kirsch's lost discovery through Bilbao and Barcelona to answer where we come from and where we are going. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-brief-history-of-time/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-brief-history-of-time/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hawking walks from ancient spheres to big bang, black holes, and time arrows without equations. https://pithybooks.com/books/guns-germs-and-steel/ https://pithybooks.com/books/guns-germs-and-steel/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The cells of a poor Black tobacco farmer revolutionized medicine, taken without her knowledge in 1951. https://pithybooks.com/books/lessons-in-chemistry/ https://pithybooks.com/books/lessons-in-chemistry/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lessons in Chemistry retold: Elizabeth Zott fired, TV cooking with science, Six-Thirty helps. https://pithybooks.com/books/sapiens/ https://pithybooks.com/books/sapiens/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harari's Sapiens from cover to cover: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural bargain, shared fictions like money and nations, and the scientific centuries that made Homo sapiens the animal that rewrote its own rules.