Steven Strogatz: Sync
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, from Robert Matthews review in New Science: “Strogatz makes clear that these new discoveries are just the start, and that answers to many more questions may now have been brought within the reach of science. Some are profound: does synchrony within the brain hold the key to our sense of being conscious? Others are more down-to-earth: what is the best way of controlling traffic to prevent orderly flow turning into a jam? Best of all, [he] leaves you eager to take part in what is clearly a scientific revolution – if not to find the answers, then at least to have fun dreaming up the questions.” (Via Abbas Raza.)