What We Are Reading Today: Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

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Updated 05 July 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

“Midnight In Chernobyl” offers a harrowing and compelling narrative of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. 

Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world. The book is an indelible portrait of history’s worst nuclear disaster, of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will remain not just vital but necessary.

This book makes for a masterful non-fiction thriller, according to a review on goodreads.com.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Mathematical Mechanic’ by Mark Levi

Updated 14 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Mathematical Mechanic’ by Mark Levi

Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics—imagine where we’d be today if Einstein and Newton didn’t have the math to back up their ideas.

But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics?

Mark Levi shows how in this delightful book, treating readers to a host of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers that will amuse and inspire their inner physicist.