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Zoom: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees, How Everything Moves
Written by Bob Berman
Narrated by Dan Woren
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.
Natural motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world around us. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial tone. For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, ZOOM bursts with science writing at its best.
If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.
Natural motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world around us. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial tone. For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, ZOOM bursts with science writing at its best.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Plus 3/4 star for amount of work this must have been - and less 1/4 star for presentation. It is very interesting but a bit haphazard. I actually enjoyed the notes in some ways best of all. And the mix of Km and Miles seemed a bit annoying and artificial but he does explain that it is an american thing. And he does explain things well despite the jokiness. Not looking to read ny other of his books any time soon.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well written and interesting! Some very thought provoking ideas and facts.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is fun and fascinating. I enjoyed the historical references to how theories and principles evolved. We still ha e a lot to learn!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this book, I took a lot of short cuts in high school and college with my science courses. And ZOOM helped fill those gaps as the book takes a lot of information and explains it well. The book is good for teachers, students and adults wanting to learn more about science.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author did a fantastic job making complex Concepts about our world and universe fun, interesting and easy to understand. It is fascinating.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5somewhat too complicated for my simple taste. so three stars
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book! It deals with big questions in a simple and easily understood manner. This is one that I want to add to my physical bookshelf. It deserves a second close reading.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Using 'motion' as a common thread, Zoom takes the reader on a quick tour of what we know about how things move, from continents to photons and beyond. I found this an enjoyable and informative read. The casual, light tone seemed a bit forced at times, but not overly so, and there are anecdotes and personal experiences mixed in to prevent science overdose for those with limited exposure to the facts and ideas being presented. It's a fairly short book, only 271 pages not counting appendices and notes, so it doesn't go into a lot of detail. It does, however, make clear to any casual reader that we have discovered a lot about the universe, especially since we've adopted a scientific approach to its study. But we have only just begun. There is still much to understand.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Like Bill Bryson but more American. Tries hard to write witty asides but quips about teenagers not wanting to do house chores and wives not understand nor being interested in science are about as funny as as the author's tenuous grip on science - not very and instead really disappointing.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Supremely fun, and wildly educational book that feels like it teaches you, on average, a new fact per paragraph. The reading is swift (a perfect irony), the writer is filled with good humor, and the book covers everything, from universe-big to quark-small with verve and passion. It was so engrossing, that even though the footnotes were at the end of the book, I read them all despite having to annoyingly shuffle the pages back and forth. It was all worth it. Great book.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You can zoom through this quite quickly. It has a number of entertaining stories about natural phenomena, couched in terms that make them intelligible and pertinent to our daily lives.
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