Joe Palca
Auteur van Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us
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Fotografie: After crisping his first attempt, Joe Palca succeeds at toasting — and eating — the perfect marshmallow.
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- Joe Palca is a science correspondent for National Public Radio, where he covers a range of science topics from biomedical research to astronomy. In addition to science reporting, Palca fills in as guest host on Talk of the Nation Science Friday.
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Palca began his journalism career in television in 1982, working as a health producer for the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. In 1986, he left television for a seven-year stint as a print journalist, first as the Washington news editor for Nature, and then as a senior correspondent for Science Magazine.
He has won numerous awards, including the National Academies’ Communications Award, the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers, the American Chemical Society James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Prize, and the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Writing.
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Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us door Joe Palca
Definitely informative, but it was really easy to put down and pick back up.
One annoyance is caused by expectations not being met - and this book didn't reach my expectations. I guess I was expected a rollicking ride about a universal feeling: annoyance.
There were a lot of interesting stories: the island of Ifaluk, people suffering from having perfect pitch, relationship annoyance (he's just not that annoyed by you), the MRI experiment measuring annoyance and annoyances from perceptions of Eastern vs Western culture. Unlike the cover on the book picture of a knot of Christmas lights, it just didn't tie together. I was more interested in finishing the book than actually reading the book.
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There were a lot of interesting stories: the island of Ifaluk, people suffering from having perfect pitch, relationship annoyance (he's just not that annoyed by you), the MRI experiment measuring annoyance and annoyances from perceptions of Eastern vs Western culture. Unlike the cover on the book picture of a knot of Christmas lights, it just didn't tie together. I was more interested in finishing the book than actually reading the book.
… (meer)
Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman did well to tie so many disparate branches of study together to explore the nature of what annoys people. The book describes branches of psychology, biology, chemistry and physics (acoustics) and the researchers and experiments designed to elicit understanding of why it is that certain things irritate us and why we can't just ignore them.
What I most liked about the book was that it wasn't a simple factual regurgitation of the scientific literature. The authors take you into the labs of the researchers and explain how the research was done, what the scientists concluded and what questions are left to be answered.
It was not a perfect book: there were some oversimplifications of acoustic phenomenon and I would suspect other experts in other sciences would have similar critiques about the chemistry or neurology sections. However, for non-experts reading these sections the introductions were good enough to get a reader a basic understanding and not wrong enough to lead them astray.
A fun, quick, and informative read highlighting the scientific process, Annoying is great for scientist or science-curious alike.… (meer)
What I most liked about the book was that it wasn't a simple factual regurgitation of the scientific literature. The authors take you into the labs of the researchers and explain how the research was done, what the scientists concluded and what questions are left to be answered.
It was not a perfect book: there were some oversimplifications of acoustic phenomenon and I would suspect other experts in other sciences would have similar critiques about the chemistry or neurology sections. However, for non-experts reading these sections the introductions were good enough to get a reader a basic understanding and not wrong enough to lead them astray.
A fun, quick, and informative read highlighting the scientific process, Annoying is great for scientist or science-curious alike.… (meer)
Not bad. Learned a few choice concepts like "cognitive overlay" and "social allergen". Didn't like the animal experiments they referenced, though.
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