Suggested reads (also views & listens)

BOOKS

1. Anthony Aveni, People and the Sky: Our Ancestors and the Cosmos (Thames & Hudson, 2008)@alun
2. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything(Doubleday, 2003)@LizzyCampbell,@matthew542, @adam_wu
3. Bill Bryson (ed), Seeing Further: the Story of Science and the Royal Society (HarperPress, 2010)@kelltrill
4. Stuart Clark, The Sun Kings: the Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began(Princeton UP, 2007)@DrStuClark
5. Clifford D. Conner, A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanics" (Nation Books, 2005)@darwinsbulldog (NB without having read)
6. Martin Davis, The Universal Computer: the Road from Leibniz to Turing (W.W. Norton & Co, 2000)@CRMcFarland
7. Richard Dawkins (ed), The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing(OUP, 2008)@kelltrill
8. Richard Dunn, The Telescope: a Short History(National Maritime Museum, 2009)@ali_boyle
9. Editors of Scientific American and John Rennie, Science Desk Reference (John Wiley & Sons, 1999)@kelltrill
10. Peter Galison, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps (Sceptre, 2003)@aaronswright
11. John Gribbin, Science: a History, 1543-2001 (Allen Lane, 2002)@LizzyCampbell, @montejon
12. James Hannam, God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (Icon Books, 2009)@kelltrill
13. Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The History of Time: a Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2005)@alun
14. Richard Holmes, Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (HarperPress, 2008)@LizzyCampbell
15. Sarah E. Igo, Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public(Harvard UP, 2008)@aarsonswright
16. Lisa Jardine, The Curious Life of Robert Hooke (HarperCollins, 2003) @LizzyCampbel
17. Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air: an Experiment, a New Country and the Amazing Force of Scientific Discovery(Riverhead Hardcover, 2008/ Penguin , 2009)@darwinsbulldog (NB without having read)
18. Steve Jones, Coral: a Pessimist in Paradise (Little, Brown & Co, 2007)@montejon
19. Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers: a History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Macmillan, 1959, new ed. Penguin, 1989)@montejon
20. Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: a Story of Violent Faith (Pan, 2004)@chrissasaki
21. Thomas J. Misa, Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins, 2004) @aaronswright
22. Diane Paul, Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present (Humanity Books, 1995)@aaronswright
23. Roy Porter (ed), Man Masters Nature: Twenty-Five Centuries of Science (BBC Books, 1987)@Mr_Considerate
24. Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer: the Terrifying Truth About the Threat from Bioterrorism(Headline Book Publishing, 2003)@chrissasaki
25. David Quammen, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: an Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (W. W. Norton & Co, 2006)@darwinsbulldog, @chrissasaki
26. Jessica Riskin, Science in the Age of Sensibility: the Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (Chicago UP, 2002)@CEMcFarland (from a history buff friend)
27. Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea(Gaia Books, 2007)@SFriedScientist
28. Scientific American and Rodney Carlisle, Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity from the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven(John Wiley & Sons, 2004)@kelltrill
29. Simon Singh, Fermat's Last Theorem: the Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years (Fourth Estate, 1997), Simon Singh, Fermat's Enigma: the Spic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Anchor Books, 1998)@LizzyCampbell, @chrissasaki
30. Simon Singh, The Code Book: the Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Fourth Estate, 1999/Anchor Books, 2000)@chrissasaki
31. Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Macmillan, 2010)@chrissasaki
32. Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: the Friends who Made the Future, 1730-1810 (Faber, 2002)@LizzyCampbell, @theselflessmeme
33. Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch:a Story of Evolution in Our Time (Vintage Books, 1995, 2002)@chrissasaki

Another vote from @LizzyCampbell went to David Bodanis, although she did not say which, if any book, was her favourite. @theselflessmeme also gave general shouts out for Roy Porter and Mike Jay.

1. Revolutions in ScienceSeries (Icon Books), edited by Jon Turney@alicebell, @jonWturney
   

• Jon Agar, Turing and the Universal Machine: the Making of the Modern Computer (2001)
• Andrew Gregory, Eureka! The Birth of Science (2001)
• Andrew Gregory, Harvey's Heart: the Discovery of Blood Circulation (2001)
• John Henry, Moving Heaven and Earth: Copernicus and the Solar System(2001)
• Kim Sterelny, Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest (2001)
• Patricia Fara, An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (2002)
• John Henry, Knowledge is Power: Francis Bacon and the Method of Science (2002)
• Stephen Pumfrey, Latitude and the Magnetic Earth (2002)
• Jon Agar, Constant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone (2003)
• Jeff Hughes, The Manhatten Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb (2003)
• Patricia Fara, Sex, Botany and Empire: the Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (2004)
• Andrew Nahum, Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet (2004)
• John Waller, The Discovery of the Germ (2004)
• Patricia Fara, Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment (2005)
• Steve Fuller, Kuhn vs Popper: the Struggle for the Soul of Science (2006)

RADIO/PODCASTS

1. How to Think About Science(CBC Radio, 2008)@aaronswright
2. The Bottom Line (CBC Radio, 2010)@aaronswright
3. David Suzuki Foundation Podcast (2008)@aaronswright
   
   

TV

1. Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady (BBC TV, 2006) @aaronswright