Chukwu believes that only by embracing technology will they finally shed the shackles of their oppressors and colonizers and take full advantage of the richness of sub-Saharan mineral resources for wealth and progress. This imbalance is exacerbated because African-Americans, Chukwu contends, prefer to pursue careers in athletics or entertainment, instead of seeking education in medicine, engineering and computer technology, and when they do achieve success in those fields they do not reinvest their money in organizations that promote science. But the author (My American Dream: From Orphan to an American Success Story, 2007) notes that blacks do not have any influence in the medical or technology arenas because they do not have any products to offer. Light but genuinely informative writing for readers who have forgotten their high school science.Īn analysis of the failure of blacks to embrace and benefit from the technological revolution and a prescriptive to change the tide.Īccording to Chukwu, the black community is mired in poverty because it has not harnessed the promise of economic stability offered by technology and medicine. Throughout, the author’s voice is enthusiastic, and most readers-physicists excluded-will learn something about physics. ![]() Although many healing philosophies teach that perfect health requires balance in all internal processes, living creatures achieve equilibrium only in death. Staying alive requires continual extraction of energy from the environment, and the chemical reactions inside our bodies that sustain life must keep matters far from equilibrium. Humans interrupt an energetic process-e.g., falling water with a dam, solar radiation by a silicon panel, decaying ancient plants in a coal furnace-and then allow it to proceed in ways that benefit us. ![]() Thus, the energy in the universe remains constant it can’t be created or destroyed but only changed from one form to another. Each of nine long, anecdote-filled sections revolves around a basic element of physics. She loves weird facts (a duck can stand on ice without freezing its feet) and extremes (the deep water of the Atlantic is moving south at one inch per year), but she is also a thoughtful educator who has done her homework. London) accompanies her entertaining, somewhat scattershot material with personal stories, jokes, and cute footnotes. In her debut book, Czerski (Physics/Univ. A British physicist and science presenter for the BBC joins the growing genre of popular authors who assure readers that science is fun.įor two decades, a simple Google search has answered our questions about why the sky is blue, how popcorn pops, and the reason you have to whack the bottle in order to make ketchup flow, but this hasn’t yet stemmed two centuries of traditional books that explain science to readers who don’t know any or may have forgotten it.
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