(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) Harry Erickson has an estranged marriage, a thankless job at an assisted living facility, and a doting daughter who puts up with his eccentricities (just wait till you get to  the end of this paragraph). But he also is under an unshakeable conviction that Albert Einstein got his Theory of Relativity completely … Continue reading Relativity – Ben Adams

(Image Credit: Penguin Random House) Four centuries. Future bleeding into the past. Present intermingling with the future. “Sea of Tranquility” is Emily St. John Mandel’s courageous and spectacular foray into speculative fiction. Toggling between the 19th, 21st, 23rd and 25th centuries, Emily St. John Mandel  weaves a stunning tapestry of Science and spirituality. The book … Continue reading Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) On Friday, December 18, 2020, Carlota Vinals, head of regulatory affairs for infectious diseases at Moderna received a nine-page letter from the US FDA. Ensconced within the arcane sounding communiqué, were fifteen seminal words, “I am authorizing the emergency use of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19.” For a start-up … Continue reading The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World – Peter Loftus

(Image Credit: http://www.waterstones.com) “Sisu” is an enigmatic Finnish word that does not lend itself to any precise translation. The closest that one can get to deciphering this inscrutable word is to conveniently label the same as a unique and proprietary Finnish concept. A Finnish way of life even. An idea that connotes stoic determination, characterizes … Continue reading The Rabbit Factor – Antti Tuomainen