Dylan Prendergast Science Department - Physics and Science Research   Email: dprendergast@scarsdaleschools.org Office: 291A Phone: 721-2671

 

Cool videos and clips: 

Musical tesla coils 

 

Great science-related fiction:

Diamond Age, Anathem, Seveneves, and Snow Crash, all by Neal Stephenson

Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, all by Orson Scott Card

2001: A Space Odyssey; 2010: Odyssey 2, both by Arthur C. Clarke 

Dune, by Frank Herbert 

The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir 

Lock In, Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, and The Lost Colony, all by John Scalzi

Neuromancer and Count Zero, by William Gibson 

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov 

Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch

The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore

Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A Heinlein

The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman

The Expanse Series, by James S. A. Corey

 

Great science-related non-fiction: 

Taking the Quantum Leap, by Alan Wolf

Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, by Richard Feynman

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, by Werner Heisenberg 

The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson

Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond 

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Norman Ohler

The Alchemy of Air, by Thomas Hager

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot