Noise (review: 1.5/5)

I love the jacket design for Noise, so I really had high hopes for this one. I really wanted another cool pop science book like Chaos or Linked, one that would take a fringe science and make it sparkle. Now, don’t get me wrong. There’s a ton of information here (a full 40% of the book is notes and indices), and it touches on how a range of fields like mathematics, law, engineering, and information theory deal with “unwanted signals.” But this latest work by Bart Kosko came off a bit dry, no flesh. Or maybe I’m just a less patient reader lately. Probably both.