Re-Tooling TBL

For several years TBL was a blog where I wrote about a wide variety of topics. Those postings are still in the Blog Archive and many are about professional development for engineers. I am now transitioning TBL to be a place where my current and former students can find information related to job searches.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

David Bodanis

I am going to take this opportunity to introduce you to an author - David Bodanis. Bodanis has written 4 books. I've completed one and am half way through two others. This guy has an incredible way of writing so that you understand what he is saying. The two books that I recommend are "E=mc^2: A biograpy of the world's most famous equation" and "Electric Universe".

Here is the problem, most of the readers of this blog are engineers. As such you carry a burden through life; people think you know everything! And when a non-engineer asks you a question, to which you reply "I don't know", their response is, "what do you mean you don't know!. I thought you were an engineer". As all of you know this can be disconcerting.

Well, Bodanis offers us some help. In a couple of short books he gives us an excellent understanding of two things that we probably should know. So, head off to Amazon and get yourself a couple of good books.

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