Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

This is an excellent popular book on the science relevant for public policy. I enthusiastically recommend it. Unfortunately, debates about environmental issues like global warming are usually ...

The material of this book was really interesting, but the tone of the author was somewhat annoying. Definitely overuses the expression "future presidents must know..."

Highly recommended! A scientist who writes understandable language for the general public is special, but one who can make you understand difficult subjects in a few lines is even better. This book ...

Fascinating look at the science that *should* be affecting policy decisions, though it often doesn't. For example, while a nuclear bomb is a scary proposition, the reality is that terrorists could probably not build one or if they could, it would not do much harm.

Leaving aside the counsel to a potential president conceit which wears out its welcome remarkably early in this egress into scientific realism from a sober and commonsensical physics professor, Muller ...

Finally a physics book for those of us who weren't/aren't science majors. I hope Muller writes a follow-up because this book was great. The best explanation I have ever seen of why and how we are addicted to oil and the internal gas combustion engine.

As a physicist (well, astrophysicist), I give this book my full endorsement. This really should be required reading for all people. Politics has a very nasty way of turning science into, well ...

This was a very thorough pesentation of the physics behind many complex issues confronting our president, everything from nuclear power to global warming. I enjoyed the book.

This book is both entertaining reading and highly informative. While the science is not explored in great depth the key concepts are covered in very clear language and tied back to potential policy decisions well.

I had such high hopes for this book when I began reading it. However, as the book wore on, it seemed to be more full of personal opinions and flimsy conjectures that remind one of a bad episode of ...