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 Re: What book are you currently reading?  [Re: NobodyCares]
#10743652 - 07/26/09 04:49 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson
entertaining illuminating and ridiculous.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: CptnGarden]
#10744621 - 07/26/09 08:32 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Survival of the Sickest, an interesting read to say the least
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Bambi]
#10746762 - 07/27/09 02:47 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm about to dive into the Oscillating universe.
I haven't read the back of the book yet, and don't plan too. I want to be completely surprised by what i read. :O
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: HappyTrippin]
#10746790 - 07/27/09 02:54 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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"Food of the Gods," by Terence McKenna
Most of the material I've encountered by Terence has been his various lectures, so actually reading his work definitely adds colors to the message & philosophy he spread during his time on this planet. I'm only about 80 pages in so far, and it's interesting to note that the book has a rhythmic flow not too dis-similar to his lectures...not sure if that has any significance, but just an interesting observation.
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This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel J. Levitin.
Extremely interesting so far. I'm kind of surprised I haven't read this book sooner.
I've also been picking through The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia. Not really the kind of book you just sit down and read though.
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started reading childhoods end its pretty good
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: kundalini1123]
#10752366 - 07/28/09 12:11 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Esperanto: Learning and Using The International Language
Still working on Ishmael and Freakonomics
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: bradley]
#10754012 - 07/28/09 10:02 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
as well as
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
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karode13
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Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets.
It was a gift and one I have wanted for my collection for a while.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: karode13]
#10758927 - 07/29/09 01:24 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Chicago & Vienna: Friends or Foes? A tale of two free-market schools of economics
It's enthralling 
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: meams]
#10758975 - 07/29/09 01:34 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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"The Forbidden Religion" by Jose M. Herrou Aragon
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: sterbeklang]
#10764944 - 07/30/09 12:17 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Growing Up With Science "Science Supplement" (1993)
some very cool shit about carbon atoms and Buckminsterfullerene (Buckyball)
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Engelsblut6]
#10765350 - 07/30/09 01:23 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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sounds cool. what other qualities does this "shit" have?
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#10765683 - 07/30/09 02:36 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Debunking Economics -- Steve Keen
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Silversoul]
#10767097 - 07/30/09 10:44 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. These collaborative authors are talented sci-fi/mystery/thriller, in the vein of Crichton but more dark and violent and less prone to long digressions about science, philosophy, and technology. They have in recent years begun to churn out books in a series centered around a recurring protagonist, FBI Agent Pendergast. This book is not their best-written, but it is engaging in its build-up of suspense, and caught my attention because it is centered around Tibetan Buddhism, however hokey a version.
In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa by Daniel Bergner, chronicles the lives of people from different strata of society in Sierra Leone, and the ravaging impact on them of the protracted and grisly civil war. Some of the stories are horrifying to consider and impossible to integrate into one's world view having not visited a place like this (I have not). I read many journalistic compilations and memoirs from war-torn African countries, and they all begin to feel the same. Yet there is value in knowing at least the bones of these peoples' stories, lest we begin to forget that they exist.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: bradley]
#10768468 - 07/30/09 03:09 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
bradley said:
sounds cool. what other qualities does this "shit" have?
well the particular segment i read was discussing
The Three Known Forms Of Carbon
and how there used to only be two until the discovery of this "Buckyball"(Buckminsterfullerene)
Buckminsterfullerene has 60 atoms arranged in regular pentagons and hexagons.
Its chemical properties include superconductivity.
I was reading that carbon is the most intensely studied of all the elements because it is the basis for most of
the molecules of life-the organic molecules. (which i never really knew....)
Also it says that for centuries, research showed carbon came in just two basic structures:
Hard-sparkling diamond, whose carbon atoms are arranged in little pyramids;
and dull-soft-slippery Graphite, which consists of sheets of carbon-atomhexagons.
this book is now saying all those chemistry books are now obsolete due to the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene.
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its 60 carbon atoms form something that looks like a hollow soccer ball. It is the only molecule of a single
element to form a spherical cage." 
The Molecules official name is Buckminsterfullerene, because it is shaped like the geodesic dome invented by that American original, Buckminster Fuller. Informally chemists called it Buckyball, or C-60. Its atoms are arrayed in a collection of regular pentagons and hexagons--12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, to be precise
Its not just the intellectual kick of major advance that is energizing the scientific community.
its the prospect that Buckyball's properties will make possible a cornucopia of valuable applications.
It is now clear to researchers that the C-60 molecule is exceptionally stable and resistant to radioactivity and chemical corrosion. (Amazing)
It also greedily accepts electrons, but is not reluctant to release them. These and other attributes have scientists and engineers already speculating about microscopic ball bearings, new cancer treatments, lightweight batteries, powerful rocket fuels, and the infinite possibilities in plastics and other organic compounds that have carbon atoms as their backbones.
One Proposal for anti-tumor therapy in cancer patients is to enclose radioactive atoms inside Buckyballs. The carbon barrier would help maintain the integrity of the radioisotopes after injection.
Another idea they were talking about was creating a super-powerfull battery by wrapping lithium and flourine atoms, which create energy when combine, inside a Buckyball cage to protect them from being attacked by oxxygen in the air.
sounds fucking sweet to me.
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Scientists speculate about stringing Buckyballs together to form the basis of new types of plastics. They dream of altering the molecule in a million ways by hanging different atoms or chemical groups from the 60 carbons.
Its the starting material for making a whole new family of organic compounds", says chemist Fred Wudl of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
so thats what i meant by "shit"
sorry 
its a great book though. that is a little snippet of what i was reading.
very interesting stuff
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Edited by Engelsblut6 (07/30/09 03:13 PM)
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Engelsblut6]
#10769499 - 07/30/09 05:54 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah I like Buckminster Fuller a lot, and am amazed by the properties of geodesic structures. Carbon nanotubes, made from buckminsterfullerene, have incredible tensile strengh (thus, doing more with less).
I'd like to learn more about the applicability of geodesics, but it looks like that book is a lot of random topics.
I was just being silly with the way I asked about the "shit".
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion]
#10769547 - 07/30/09 06:00 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Does the book talk about African slums at all? I read Bill Bryson's African Diary and it was really interesting to hear his first hand account of walking around a Nairobi slum. The government won't even acknowledge that this massive population of people exists. It's such a mess.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: bradley]
#10770278 - 07/30/09 08:26 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Aldous Huxley - Doors of Perception
I recently saw some books at Chapters that I wanna pick up, specifically "What Is America?", and a couple others whose titles slip my mind.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: bradley]
#10770407 - 07/30/09 08:57 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
bradley said:
Does the book talk about African slums at all? I read Bill Bryson's African Diary and it was really interesting to hear his first hand account of walking around a Nairobi slum. The government won't even acknowledge that this massive population of people exists. It's such a mess.
As far as I am aware, there weren't any slums in Sierra Leone before the war. After the war, it was a nation of slums.
I have read horrible, crazy, surreal accounts of slums in Luanda, Lusaka, Lagos, Kinshasa et al. Those places seem like another universe to me. That they could exist across the ocean from the American suburbia I have grown up in, half a world between me and the remote nomadic tribes of the Himalayas, is mind blowing. What a planet to live on.
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