Second paragraph of third chapter:

[Rick Edwards:] No it doesn’t. In 1979, French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet used a punch-card computer to work out what one [a blackhole] would look like. He didn’t have a printer, so he drew the result of his computations by hand – and it looks quite like Interstellar‘s black hole, Gargantua.

This is a popular science book, aimed perhaps at the older end of the teenage market. It takes ten well-known films – The Martian, Jurassic Park, Interstellar, Planet of the Apes, Back to the Future, 28 Days Later, The Matrix, Gattaca, Ex Machina and Alien – and hangs a series of short reflections off them about the state of play in real science of the concepts developed in each film. It is breezily presented as a dialogue between the two podcast hosts. I found the sidebar sections a little annoying, and would have preferred them to be integrated into the main text, but otherwise it is harmless enough. Of the films I have not seen, Gattaca sounds the most interesting. You can get Science(ish) here.

This was my top unread book acquired in 2021. Next on that pile is The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire, by Julie Kavanagh.