Via BoingBoing, this looks like one hell of a cool book: The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and more. Each site in The Geek Atlas focuses on discoveries or inventions, and includes information about the people and the science behind them.
The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and more.
Each site in The Geek Atlas focuses on discoveries or inventions, and includes information about the people and the science behind them. Full of interesting photos and illustrations, the book is organized geographically by country (by state within the U.S.), complete with latitudes and longitudes for GPS devices.
John Graham-Cumming also keeps a great blog:
http://www.jgc.org/blog/
I'm considering having a friend buy me a copy in the UK, because for the first year, O'Reilly is giving money to Bletchley Park--50p for every copy sold in the UK:
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/06/geek-atlas-helping-to-save-bletchley.ht…