Looking for recommendations for a book on recent advances in cosmology.

[Girard442]

I was watching Neil deGrasse Tyson on Colbert and realized this layman's knowledge had gotten pretty stale. Web page recommendations are OK, but for a week I'll be on a boat where the link to the Internet is, I think, pigeons.

TY in advance,
G

[NCTraveler]

1. Not sure.

Just a k&r as these sometimes sink. If the right person sees it you will have some great reading for the boat trip. Have fun.

[First Speaker]

2. You might try *The Unknown Universe*, by Stuart Clark...

...to this very much lay reader, it was illuminating...

[triron]

3. I like Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, and Michio Kaku

You might just check out some of their books.

[L. Coyote]

4. "Orange is the New White."

kidding

[Girard442]

6. "Orange is the New Dreck."

"Dreck" is Yiddish and means pretty much what you think it does.

[Iggo]

5. Kick.

Taking notes...

[left-of-center2012]

7. cosmology ... so not beauty school textbooks?