Midlogphase reviews my book (from a decade ago) This is Improbable.
Midlogphase says:
This is a book that you shouldn’t read really fast. This is not a sit down page turner book. This is a book you should read very very slowly. “This is “Improbable”. [These are] things that will make you laugh and then make you think. This book is full of exactly that. Stuff that will make you laugh and then make you think. And it’s just quirky and strange and full of really, really good science.
Educators ask me all the time, my friends who are educators, where’s a really good paper to start my students? Where’s a good peer-reviewed journal or just an article that I can give my students and get them used to reading peer-reviewed journals? This is a compendium of a lot of those kind of things that will get students thinking and wondering and going through scientific literature…
It’s a gold mine of thought fodder. I really love this book. You should have it in your house just so people pick it up and read it and chuckle about what they read for the next year.
I, Marc, the author of the book, am grateful to midlogphase for picking up the book, for reading it, and for spreading the word.
I wrote a second book in this series. It’s called That’s Improbable Too. Most of what’s in both books is adapted and expanded from the weekly column I wrote, for thirteen years, in The Guardian newspaper.
I would like to write more books about various things (tons of material accretes here in my office, continuously, from various sources). But… kindly book publishers and kindly book agents kindly tell me that people are not interested in stuff that would interest me. Midlogphase gives me hope that maybe, somewhere, a few more people might be interested.
