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Mindcore
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Posted - 02/08/2008 :  08:27:16  Show Profile  Visit Mindcore's Homepage Send Mindcore a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Natalie Angier's book The Canon is one of the best books I've read in my life.
The Long Poem: The book nearly brought me to tears of joy.
Natalie Angier's book is in the long poem category.
What Angier did was right a basic collection of things about science that everyone should know. I thought it was going to be about as much fun as a textbook. But I was extremely wrong.

The book is beautifully written. Its like a ballet of words explaining the beauty that surrounds you at any given time.

This is literally a book that I think the more people read it, the better the world will be.

Dude
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Posted - 02/08/2008 :  09:00:13   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier.

Haven't read it, but it sounds interesting.

I'm not the greatest fan of the NYT science section, and Angier writes for them, but maybe she'll be better in a format that lacks editorial enforecement of "balance".
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Mindcore
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Posted - 02/08/2008 :  11:22:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Mindcore's Homepage Send Mindcore a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dude

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier.

Haven't read it, but it sounds interesting.

I'm not the greatest fan of the NYT science section, and Angier writes for them, but maybe she'll be better in a format that lacks editorial enforecement of "balance".




This book is definitely 100% pro-science, pro-evidence, no attempts at anti-scientific fallacistic balance.
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