A review by beatsbybeard
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins

4.0

Dawkins at his grandfatherliest. This book is aimed towards a roughly pre-teen audience and I enjoyed his ways of simple explanation while keeping the fundamentals intact. Each chapter asks a basic question, and the first chunk of each chapter tells some of the myths people have created to answer them, followed by the actual answers as discovered by science. Among other things, I learned about spectroscopes (telescopes that detect rainbows) and Dawkins's dislike of any Pink Panther films after the first one.