Slate Magazine
An entertaining and genuinely informative compilation... The Explainer Slate Magazine [... more]
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The Explainer
 My Second Favorite Slate Feature: The Explainer is a regular feature of the online magazine, Slate. It answers questions you have about the current news, such as what is a spiderhole and how did it get its name? Or how do you pronounce Abu Ghraib? These [... more]
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Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific ...
Witty, but self serving: The author's specific view on the origin of life on Earth from clay minerals explained in a "see how smart I am" fashion. For a broader overview in a similarly slim book, read Origins of Life from Freeman Dyson instead. [... more]
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The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending ...
A good introduction to two tricky subjects: This is an interesting and non-mathematical introduction to quantum theory ("atoms and their constituents") and the general theory of relativity ("our picture of space, time and gravity"). [... more]
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, ...
From Amazon.com: There is an ill-concealed skeleton in the closet of physics: "As they are currently formulated, general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right." Each is exceedingly accurate in its field: general relativity [... more]
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Adventures in the Dream Trade
Gaiman Strikes Again: A fascinating look at writing from a writer's perspective. While there are a few poems and stories, the book centers around essays, introductions, and a vast excerpt from his blog during his proofing/touring for American Gods. I [... more]
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The Hay Diet Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Food ...
Good information, but not particularly well written: I totally agree with the reviewer that said the sections tend to run together and aren't laid out real well. The information seems to come at you haphazardly. It reminds me of getting information [... more]
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Expanded Universe
Hard-nosed, yet compassionate: When all is said and done, you can't help respecting Robert Heinlein. The man knew what he wanted to say, and by jiminy he went out there and said it... This book, along with "Grumbles from the Grave," probably [... more]
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Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules
From Amazon.co.uk: "Molecules", Philip Ball writes in Stories of the Invisible, "are the smallest units of meaning in chemistry", the words, if you will, made up of atomic letters. In this lively essay, full of such useful metaphors, [... more]
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Selected Cantos
From Amazon.com: Among his fellow modernists, Ezra Pound inspired equal parts admiration and contempt. T.S. Eliot called him "il miglior fabbro" and dedicated "The Waste Land" to him after Pound had surgically stripped down the [... more]
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Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of ...
Monument to a fascinating technology: Brown began his studies on World War II radar development "because the book he would have liked to read did not exist". The outcome is a book almost any reader would love to have written! Although radar [... more]
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Meet Me Halfway
Wonderful and Beautiful: This book was just amazing. The words really ment something, something that almost everyone can identify with. They way he writes about love and life, it was just all so beautiful and it made you feel good about yourself, about [... more]
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