Science popularization has its legends and heroes, just like any other field, though I’ve heard no plans as yet to open a Hall of Fame. Should that day come, one of the first inductees would ...

Ludwig Boltzmann is best known as the Austrian physicist who wrote down the statistical formula for entropy, but if the physics thing hadn’t worked out, he would have made an excellent travel writer.

Strong conclusions: Eric Johnson covers Ludwig Boltzmann’s science well, but veers into dangerous territory by pathologizing him. (Courtesy: Photo Researchers / Science Photo Library) Yet I found ...