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Book review: Luke O’Neill goes wild on wondrous history of science
Our Bray-born version of Doctor Who whips us through tens of thousands of years of exploration of the universe without and within
SCIENCE
To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science
By Luke O’Neill
Penguin/Viking, €30
Luke O’Neill, the affable professor of biochemistry and immunology at Trinity College Dublin, became a sort of folk hero during the pandemic. His regular broadcasts on Newstalk’s Pat Kenny Show reassured the locked down that science was working towards a solution. Even the most stringent Covid deniers must have taken comfort from his ...