Cat's Cradle is a book that sits in rare company with your Great Gatsbys and Catchers in the Rye as one of the few pieces of required reading from high school that everyone actually liked.
Believe it or not, Matthew McConaughey's thesis (from behind a bookshelf inside a black hole) that love is the most powerful force in the universe isn't the most scientifically accurate thing Hollywood has offered us lately.
You're probably familiar with Kurt Vonnegut's required reading, or rather the Kurt Vonnegut books your high school English teacher required you to read.
Ahh September, the leaves are changing into autumnal shades of yellow, red and orange, the air has a chilly bite, and movie theaters are being inundated with 'Based on a True Story' Oscar-bait.
We've never known more about our world and our universe, but at the same time it feels like there are more people who completely ignore science than ever before.
