A review by fsethompson
Nothing: From Absolute Zero to Cosmic Oblivion - Amazing Insights into Nothingness by Jeremy Webb

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

As a collection of articles originally published in NewScientist, the tone and accessibility level can vary from article to article. All of them, however, are accessible to laypeople - even though a clarifying google search may be required just due to the constraints the writers are working with - and many touch on subjects that might not occur to those outside specific fields. I'm especially a fan on the articles recounting the history of the numeral zero: "From zero to hero" by Richard Webb and "Zero, zip, zilch" by Ian Stewart, as well as Stewart's article on the use of navigating gravity levels in the solar system, "Ride the celestial subway", and Valerie Jamieson's article on concepts usually dismissed as too boring to consider, "Boring-ology: a happy tedium".