[abecedarius]

I'm mildly curious: about how many of the books in this series have you read?

I'm with you on feeling jaded by pop science in general, but I'm struck by the lack of specific comments on this specific series in the HN reactions here.

My opinion from reading 10 of them in the last few years: 3 were worthwhile to me (The ice age, Stoicism, and planetary systems), and a couple more in the sort-of-OK range. An 11th I quickly gave up on (Anatomy: A VSI -- I'm still on the lookout for a book in that niche).

I'd really value a series like this which presumed a reader comfy with basic freshman math for a STEM major, or even high school math -- it's some kind of indictment of modern education that educated adults are taken by the whole industry to be repelled by even that much math in pop science.