https://www.huffmanwrites.org/tags/science/Recent content in Science on Huffman WritesHugoenSun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry-summary/A summary and review of Neil deGrasse Tyson's brisk tour of the cosmos — what it gets gloriously right and where its brevity becomes a liability.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/braiding-sweetgrass-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/braiding-sweetgrass-summary/A summary and review of Robin Wall Kimmerer's braiding of Indigenous botanical knowledge and Western science into an argument for gratitude as an ecological practice.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/brocas-brain-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/brocas-brain-summary/A summary and review of Carl Sagan's wide-ranging essay collection on science, pseudoscience, the romance of discovery, and the nature of the inquiring mind.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/cosmos-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/cosmos-summary/A summary and review of Carl Sagan's magnum opus — a thirteen-chapter journey through the history of science, the scale of the universe, and the fragile improbability of human consciousness.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/pale-blue-dot-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/pale-blue-dot-summary/A summary and review of Carl Sagan's meditation on humanity's place in the cosmos, inspired by the most important photograph ever taken.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/silent-spring-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/silent-spring-summary/A summary and review of Rachel Carson's landmark investigation into the ecological damage of synthetic pesticides — and the civic argument embedded within it.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/demon-haunted-world-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/demon-haunted-world-summary/A summary and review of Carl Sagan's argument for skepticism as a daily practice and the baloney detection kit as a survival tool.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/sixth-extinction-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/sixth-extinction-summary/A summary and review of Elizabeth Kolbert's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the current mass extinction event and the human activity driving it.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/thinking-fast-and-slow-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/thinking-fast-and-slow-summary/Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow — a summary and critical review of his System 1 and System 2 framework, the cognitive biases they produce, and where the research holds up under scrutiny.