Delusions of Gender

Delusions of Gender, by Cordelia Fine, will make you angry enough to cry for the specious arguments and poor thinking that drape themselves in the fleece of science, but it will also make you sing the glory of good science, laugh the wisdom of it out loud, and bend your knee in awe at the brilliant mind that is Cordelia Fine.

This book should be read by every scientist in the world – to help them to be better scientists – and it should be required reading in every higher school on the planet. Wonderful. Simply wonderful

New fields of science are always fascinating, always sparkling with the joy of discovery and the excitement of interconnectivity with other, more established fields. The emerging science of spontaneous order is another tessera – another mosaic tile in the grand picture of what we know about the universe around us, and the mysteries that can still make us thrill with wonder.

Steven Strogatz has given us a superb introduction to this critically important field of study in SYNC, but the book is also a journey into the processes of discovery – the adventures of the mind that tell the most rapturous narrative we humans have ever shared: science itself.

This book will make you mad as hell, for all the right reasons. Fever is a wonderful thrill ride through the political, social, environmental and biological undulations that make up the sine-wave history of mankind. Running parallel to the story of malaria and its insinuation into the blood of our species, is the story of inequality, corruption and greed that have tainted that blood no less virulently.

Fever is a stunning achievement, and it should be required reading for every tertiary student on the planet, irrespective of their course of study.

I don’t know you, but Sonia Shah: I love you.