The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
As I eagerly await New Scientist‘s next book club pick, I’ve been reading a book that has languished on my shelves for years. I wish it hadn’t. The Man Who Couldn’t Stop, by science journalist David Adam, is an account of living with obsessive compulsive disorder. For him, and many others in the 1980s and 90s, it presented as an intense fear of getting AIDS. Adam navigates the topic so skilfully you never feel you’re getting to the “science bit”.
I’ve also been gripped by The Retrievals, a podcast about a fertility clinic where women had their eggs…
