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DID NOT FINISH: 50%

DNF

I was fairly certain that I was going to be disappointed with this book after the opening chapter begins by telling the 'quirky' tell of Truman - a man who used to settle his disagreements with his wife by throwing her into a lake despite the fact that she couldn't swim - and seems to find it all somewhat amusing. Domestic violence, what fun!

This book, at least the first half of which I read, is the worst kind of popular science in that it is full of interesting and charming stories about how things work but not very forthcoming with the actual science of it.