1491 - history of americas - pre columbus - concise review of what we KNOW - pretty much everything that you know is wrong
Paleofantasy - AMAZING read on RECENT evolution ....
high altitude mutations (two different versions asia and south america)
grain
dairy
really interesting stuff
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0393081370/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms
Plants that exist today, but have no seed dispersers. leftovers from when we killed all the megafauna.
Avocados Osage Orange are a great examples. no animals in the americas today can swallow the seeds. but elephants can ...
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0465005527/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Monday, February 5, 2018
Thursday, August 21, 2014
learning new things
I just started a new thing. Reading a text book on a topic that I know nothing or just what you might read on fark. It has been FANTASTIC. Finished my first book and my sister immediately stole it to read.
I could see spending eternity learning new things and extending human knowledge, forever.
oh what books?
kon-tiki and voyage of the rah and everything else written by Thor Heyerdahl
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
Fantastic book on Greenland Ice Cores. We all know that they drill these cores and do things with them. This book will give you a ton of interesting detail on the how and what.
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
The currently accepted theory of smell doesnt work. Proof? They can not use the theory to create new molecules that smell the way the theory predicts. Turin's theory WORKS, he has created a company that is producing synthetic molecules to reproduce scents.
Stranger still, his theory is rejected.
The Chemists say that the chemistry is fine, but they cant comment on the physics nor the biology.
Gideon's Trumpet
Interesting read on one of the most important SCOTUS rulings and how The Court work.
Fun short henry fonda movie too! Strange enough, Henry Fonda plays a petty thief!
Fantastic book on Greenland Ice Cores. We all know that they drill these cores and do things with them. This book will give you a ton of interesting detail on the how and what.
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
The currently accepted theory of smell doesnt work. Proof? They can not use the theory to create new molecules that smell the way the theory predicts. Turin's theory WORKS, he has created a company that is producing synthetic molecules to reproduce scents.
Stranger still, his theory is rejected.
The Chemists say that the chemistry is fine, but they cant comment on the physics nor the biology.
The Physicists say that the physics is fine, but they cant comment on the chemistry nor the biology.
The Biologists say that the biology is fine, but they cant comment on the physics nor the chemistry.
Interesting read on one of the most important SCOTUS rulings and how The Court work.
Fun short henry fonda movie too! Strange enough, Henry Fonda plays a petty thief!
Everyone knows that you can count tree rings to tell how old a tree is or was. But did you know that they have a 12,000 series of overlapping tree rings which allow you to accurately date a piece of wood?
Did you know that this data is so accurate, that they use this data to properly calibrate Carbon Dating, which is less accurate?
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
Very compelling read on the history if fat, the history of treating diabetes, the state of the understanding of nutrition, digestion and metabolism. (hint: you are addicted to sugar and starch. kick the habit.)
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe
Interesting theory refuting The Big Bang. Gives a lot of history of our understanding of Origins.
Hint, if you have two theories, and one theory does a better job of explaining the observed data, that is probably the more correct theory. No matter how many people like the less accurate theory.
Book suffers from silly chapters not related to science. Interesting that this theory can FIT the data without dark matter nor dark energy.
phagocytes virus
The Forgotten Cure: The Past and Future of Phage Therapy
"Bacteriophages have the potential to stop many if not most life threatening, drug resistant bacterial infections." This is exciting science that is almost completely ignored in the US.
LOVE this book.
Like I need a reason to read this? HAH
fun but meh ... not really recommended unless you have nothing else to read
Lies My Teacher Told Me
mhm great history book
Why you should read it?
Because everything that you know about US history is a complete LIE and you want to know the truth.
Reading Now
Confidence Game
need link and review
Three best people to con:
happy
sad
afraid
1491
AMAZING history book
need link and review
Three best people to con:
happy
sad
afraid
1491
AMAZING history book
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Starship Troopers and Voting
I find Starship Troopers (ST) to still be thought provoking. The question of who should get "the vote" is quite interesting to continue thinking about.
Who should vote:
Felons after they are released having served their time?
Felons serving their time?
Felons on parole?
People committed to a mental institute?
Very low IQ people? Lower than 50? Lower than 75?
Very uneducated people? Unable to add, read or write?
What about brain-damaged? To what level?
Very old people who are losing their faculties?
What about special classes?
Everyone gets 1 vote.
People paying less than 20k in taxes (including sales, local, state, federal) get 2 votes.
People paying 20k-100k get 3 votes.
People paying more than 100k get 4 votes.
so yah, I use ST as a starting point to thinking about the consequences and unintended consequences of different voting schemes. The consequences of a tax paying weighted system can be interesting.
The group paying the most into the social tax fund would have the most impact on who gets elected.
The group paying the least would still get some say, but not enough to pull things to one extreme or another.
The group paying the most per person would get a bigger say, but they are such a small number of people that they would not be an issue.
The people avoiding paying taxes would have less say than if they had paid their fair share.
/as I said, thinking can be fun. yes I know all about the down sides, but the thinking alone can be useful.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
You should read this. Really!!
Stumbling on Happiness
This is probably the best book which you have never read. It literally changed my life. As hard as it was, I started actually taking some people's recommendations without over thinking it or just outright rejecting them. No, not you, I will still reject your recommendations ;-)
This book is incredibly fun and easy to read, presents tons of information from tons of studies in very fun and surprising ways.
This doesn't make all recommendations equal, but some people on some topics are perfect and you should just trust them and try what they are suggesting. Like Pete on Restaurants in Chicago.
Summer Knight
Yes, this is book 4 in the series. No, do not start with book one. Book one was his first novel and the writing is terrible. If you like book 4, go back and start with Storm Front.
The series currently has 14 books, the last book, Cold Days, is one of, if not my favorite book of all time. The writing and story amazed me.
The stories take place in Chicago, present day, following Harry Dresden, wizard, PI. The writing improves greatly over the series and has moved (and my friends I make read it) to tears at times. What the hell?!!
The stories vary over the series, from vampires, to werewolves, to Fae, to zombies and ghouls, to pretty much everything super-natural, but they are NOT twilight books.
The Alera Codex
Fantasy. One of my favorite series.
The Last Hawk
Sci-Fi. One of my favorite books.
Role reversed society, which by reversing everything, puts our current societies into glaring light.
The major thread of the story follows a complex game and information exchange. We exchange information in a myriad of ways, the questions we ask expose things about ourselves that others can pick up. An interesting view at fictional way of representing information which will lead you to want to learn this game to see what you could see.
If you liked this, Read Primary Inversion, and then here is a reading list. (Link here)
The Way of Kings , Sanderson (link)
When this is done, it will be the best Fantasy ever written.
Thanks Tery Green for making me READ this, only took how many years??
Mistborn Series is quite good...
Marooned in Realtime
Rainbow's End
Vinge
Vicious dog thing book
Vinge is the best
Hyperion
City and of Stairs
The female brain
The male brain
Written by a female MD ... Amazing data
The Deed of Paksenarrion
Horrible cover, great read
World War Z
Shut up and read this book
This is probably the best book which you have never read. It literally changed my life. As hard as it was, I started actually taking some people's recommendations without over thinking it or just outright rejecting them. No, not you, I will still reject your recommendations ;-)
This book is incredibly fun and easy to read, presents tons of information from tons of studies in very fun and surprising ways.
This doesn't make all recommendations equal, but some people on some topics are perfect and you should just trust them and try what they are suggesting. Like Pete on Restaurants in Chicago.
Summer Knight
Yes, this is book 4 in the series. No, do not start with book one. Book one was his first novel and the writing is terrible. If you like book 4, go back and start with Storm Front.
The series currently has 14 books, the last book, Cold Days, is one of, if not my favorite book of all time. The writing and story amazed me.
The stories take place in Chicago, present day, following Harry Dresden, wizard, PI. The writing improves greatly over the series and has moved (and my friends I make read it) to tears at times. What the hell?!!
The stories vary over the series, from vampires, to werewolves, to Fae, to zombies and ghouls, to pretty much everything super-natural, but they are NOT twilight books.
The Alera Codex
Fantasy. One of my favorite series.
The Last Hawk
Sci-Fi. One of my favorite books.
Role reversed society, which by reversing everything, puts our current societies into glaring light.
The major thread of the story follows a complex game and information exchange. We exchange information in a myriad of ways, the questions we ask expose things about ourselves that others can pick up. An interesting view at fictional way of representing information which will lead you to want to learn this game to see what you could see.
If you liked this, Read Primary Inversion, and then here is a reading list. (Link here)
The Way of Kings , Sanderson (link)
When this is done, it will be the best Fantasy ever written.
Thanks Tery Green for making me READ this, only took how many years??
Mistborn Series is quite good...
Marooned in Realtime
Rainbow's End
Vinge
Vicious dog thing book
Vinge is the best
Hyperion
City and of Stairs
The female brain
The male brain
Written by a female MD ... Amazing data
The Deed of Paksenarrion
Horrible cover, great read
World War Z
Shut up and read this book
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