I've got one I'm still playing with, so I'll link it and delete it in the next comment. I've tweaked it in some different ways, but I'm still not happy with it.
Some not-too-heavy but interesting reading: The Neptune File by Tom Standage - The story of the mathematicians and astronomers, as well as the science and the politics, surrounding the discovery of Neptune (and some other planets). Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks - The best biography ever, it's 1/4 footnotes and follows Sacks as a youngster reading every book and doing every experiment he can get his hands on. (Seriously - at one point he's playing with esters and goes so far down the period table he manages to stink up his family's garage so badly they can't use it for a year. Or something.) The Burning House by Jay Ingram - Brains are cool. If you've read brain stuff then you probably already know all these stories, but otherwise it's neat to know all the ways we can screw things up.
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I've got one I'm still playing with, so I'll link it and delete it in the next comment. I've tweaked it in some different ways, but I'm still not happy with it.
Some not-too-heavy but interesting reading:
The Neptune File by Tom Standage - The story of the mathematicians and astronomers, as well as the science and the politics, surrounding the discovery of Neptune (and some other planets).
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks - The best biography ever, it's 1/4 footnotes and follows Sacks as a youngster reading every book and doing every experiment he can get his hands on. (Seriously - at one point he's playing with esters and goes so far down the period table he manages to stink up his family's garage so badly they can't use it for a year. Or something.)
The Burning House by Jay Ingram - Brains are cool. If you've read brain stuff then you probably already know all these stories, but otherwise it's neat to know all the ways we can screw things up.