The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
by John Graham-Cumming
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The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and more. Each site in The Geek Atlas focuses on discoveries or show more inventions, and includes information about the people and the science behind them. Full show lessTags
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John Graham-Cumming is a longtime GNU make expert. He wrote the acclaimed machine learning-based POPFile email filter and successfully petitioned the British government to apologize for its treatment of Alan Turing. He holds a doctorate in computer security from Oxford University and works at CloudFlare.
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