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"We are starstuff." -- Carl Sagan
Some Music To Read By (Pachelbel Canon):
....or if you prefer it a tad peppier:
"A" -- Buy it, read it, savor it
"B" -- Worth a read
"C" -- Browse it; maybe(?) read
"D" -- Ignore it
"F" -- Use to line the birdcage
--- Books, writers, links, videos... for those who relish science and nature writing/reporting
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." -- Carl Sagan
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." -- Carl Sagan
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"I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe."
-- Isaac Asimov
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"I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Posts
Some Science Writing/Reporting on the Web:
- NY Times/Science
- Science Musings (Chet Raymo)
- The Edge Site
- Scientific American
- American Scientist Mag.
- NPR Science Blog
- Discover Blogs
- SciTech Daily
- ScienceDaily
- PhysOrg.com
- Famous Paul Davies Essay
- SJ Gould et.al. essays
- "Dishonesty In Science"
- Some More Science Essays
- Cocktail Party Physics
- ScienceLifestyle blog
- Not Even Wrong (blog)
- Natalie Angier (news pieces)
- Dennis Overbye pieces
- ScientificBlogging.com
- Essays on Math (K.Devlin)
Some Nature Blogs and Writing:
Misc.:
... Book Reviews ...
-- Bookstores/Clubs --
"We are starstuff." -- Carl Sagan
Musical Interlude. . . .
Some Music To Read By (Pachelbel Canon):
....or if you prefer it a tad peppier:
Book Rating Scale :
"A" -- Buy it, read it, savor it
"B" -- Worth a read
"C" -- Browse it; maybe(?) read
"D" -- Ignore it
"F" -- Use to line the birdcage
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- Mars Rover "Spirit"... R.I.P.
- Remarkable Rotifers
- The Sea Around Us
- Sex In Space
- A Link To An Incendiary Blog Post
- Forensic Science
- Some Applied Science
- On the Fringe
- Citizen Science On Tap
- Music and Neuro-expectations
- E.O. Wilson in New Yorker
- Danger of the 'Dilbert' Workplace
- Peter Woit on Physics
- Sponsors of ....
- Candid Camera Reveals More Tool Use in Crows
- The Shape of Things To Come (#scio10 take-away)
- Not Exactly, 'What Is the Meaning of Life?'
- The Intelligence of Dolphins
- "The Top 10 Unanswered Questions in the Universe"
- Free Online Learning Courses
- Data-Mining Feelings
- One of the World's Critical Questions...
- TV Watching and Health
- A Couple More Book Reviews
- Clay Shirky on the Internet
- Some Personal Genomics Links
- Evidence-based Medicine
- Don't Try This At Home Kids
- Science On Tap in 2020
- Science Online 2010
- Okay So You're 98% Chimpanzee... and 8% Virus
- Mind-boggling
- Geometric Patterns in the Mind
- "The Human Spark"
- A Little Essay From a Carbon-based Life Form
- New Science Blog from NPR
- On With Twitter
- Outside-the-Box Thinker: Thomas Gold
- Book Picks From Scientific American
- Rate of Genomic Change
- Dolphins as 'Non-human Persons'
- Some Books
- Climate Change, Gate, Warming
- Biodiversity for 2010... and Beyond
- Nurturing Creativity
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