Reviews for Common Purposes of Life Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

The average rating for Common Purposes of Life Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-03 00:00:00 Punjabi Munda One of my all time favorite books. At 11 years old I used to sit around and read this again and again for hours on end...

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-10 00:00:00 Stephen Bernard Hill Since publication, it has been discovered that Viking *did* find organics on Mars: Oops! Another correction: He says that 4 Hydrogen atoms fuse into one Helium. It's only 2. Editor should have caught that one! I did NOT enjoy reading about the following pseudo-scientific ABORTIONS: * UFOs, the Roswell crash site, etc. * Lowell and his canals on Mars * The ALH84001 Mars rock and imagined lifeforms therein I guess Ben Bova had nothing else to write about, so he included the bad science along with the good. Ugh. This is almost as bad as a similar (almost identical!) book by Paul Davies: