{"id":74320,"date":"2017-12-11T01:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T09:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-ten-best-science-books-of-2017"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:01:27","slug":"the-ten-best-science-books-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-ten-best-science-books-of-2017","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Best Science Books of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ten-best-science-books-of-2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the best science and tech writing goes one step further. With delight and mystery\u2014and sans unnecessary jargon and technical details\u2014this genre can help us better understand some of the world\u2019s most complex and abstract concepts, from gravitational waves (Gravity\u2019s Kiss) to Darwinian evolution (The Evolution of Beauty) to antibiotic resistance (Big Chicken). Each of these remarkable tomes from 2017 does just that, shining a light on the hidden connections and invisible forces that shape the world around us. In doing so, they make our experience of that world that much richer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Get the best of <a href=\"http:\/\/Smithsonian.com\">Smithsonian.com<\/a> by email. Keep up-to-date on:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/ten-best-science-books-2017-180967420\/\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/ten-best-scien...180967420\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the best science and tech writing goes one step further. With delight and mystery\u2014and sans unnecessary jargon and technical details\u2014this genre can help us better understand some of the world\u2019s most complex and abstract concepts, from gravitational waves (Gravity\u2019s Kiss) to Darwinian evolution (The Evolution of Beauty) to antibiotic resistance (Big Chicken). Each of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74340,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74320\/revisions\/74340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}