{"id":2216,"date":"2020-06-11T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2020-06-05T21:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T03:46:41","slug":"book-science-abridged-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/11\/book-science-abridged-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Science – Abridged (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Science:Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2017
\nAuthor: Zach Weinersmith
\nLength: 60 pages<\/p>\n

Another in Zach Weinersmith\u2019s \u201cAbridged\u201d series, Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness<\/em> is another tongue-in-cheek examination of topics that require much more than a few witty summations to understand completely. Unfortunately, much like his Nerd Disses<\/em><\/a> book, only those who have extensively studied all of these scientific disciplines will understand every joke. As an engineer, I could understand a lot of the humor here, but even I was ignorant of some of the more obscure (or more social) sciences. That being said, he nailed the abridged version of engineering, which makes me think the other sciences received the same treatment.<\/p>\n

While not nearly as borderline sacrilegious as The Holy Bible: Abridged<\/em><\/a>, Science: Abridged<\/em> does get its cheap shots in where it can. I\u2019m sure those who extensively study these sciences will laugh at the sardonic tidbits contained in this book, understanding how ridiculous their chosen field may appear at times. Others might groan with how \u201cclose to home\u201d some of the jabs come to exposing the weaknesses in their particular areas of study. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s all written in good fun and without any malice intended toward its audience.<\/p>\n

Even though this is a short book that I\u2019d assume would be best suited as a decorative item on a coffee table, end table, or toilet tank, I would have appreciated an appendix or \u201cfurther reading\u201d section for those people who happened to have their interest piqued with the brief summations of these scientific studies. Of course, having an extensive bibliography would somewhat defeat the purpose of a book that touts its abridgment cuts the source material down to mere uselessness.<\/p>\n

A funny book for those who know what\u2019s funny about it, I give Science: Abridged<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness Year: 2017 Author: Zach Weinersmith Length: 60 pages Another in Zach Weinersmith\u2019s \u201cAbridged\u201d series, Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness is another tongue-in-cheek examination of topics that require much more than a few witty summations to understand completely. Unfortunately, much like his Nerd Disses book, only those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,54],"tags":[1020,2451,2452,55,8,78,2395],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-book","tag-1020","tag-abridged","tag-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness","tag-book","tag-review","tag-science","tag-zach-weinersmith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}