Books!

Korean_Romeo wrote: I'm currently reading Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism by Jim Stanford.

While this is what I'm currently reading, I got into children's literature this year. My previous responses toward children's literature was very condescending, that children's literature is beneath me as an adult who reads Sartre, Camus, Kafka, Hesse etc..

Boy how I was wrong!!!!! I discovered and read two children's literature books that totally changed my attitude.(And also, I sadly realized that I unknowingly have carried one thing that I hate most about Asian culture - ageism) One is titled The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Another is titled Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus.

They are both amazing!!!!

I am reading a thriller by Peter May called 'Runaway'. Talks about 5 guys running away in 1965 and 2015, and has the two stories interweaved. I am halfway through the book.

Almost done with "Low Midnight" and then it'll be "Kitty Saves the World" both by Carrie Vaughn. I can't believe I'm almost done with this series after I've been reading/following it for the last 7 years.

the emperors blades, try online light novels like coiling dragon, or i like animal farm

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes—and Its Implications, by David Deutsch

The Martian, by Andy Weir

The first is non-fiction (obviously) and the second is fiction. Both were pure science geektastic awesomeness!

I am by no means intelligent enough to be a physicist, but The Fabric of Reality was written in a way that you don't need to be in order to understand.

The Martian is a survival story of an engineer botanist astronaut stranded on Mars. Even though it is very intense and filled with good science, it is also extremely humorous.

10/10 would recommend on both counts.

1Q84 trilogy <3

My favorite quote from The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time:

The Professor wrote: My favorite quote from The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time:

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"The growth of untestable scenarios about unobservable multiple universes or extra dimensions are not a cause of the crisis, they are a symptom of the need to change paradigms to avoid stumbling over unanswerable questions, or the proliferation of untestable hypotheses."

- Lee Smolin (pg. 500)

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Effectively this just uses the idea of other universes to put a pseudo-scientific gloss on “what if?” stories – making them close relatives of things like Robert Harris’ Fatherland (what if the Nazis won World War 2), It’s A Wonderful Life (what if Jimmy Stewart’s character had never been born) and Sliding Doors (what if I’d never gone to the cinema and wasted two hours). These are tales that make no attempt to pass themselves off as being grounded in science – they’re appealing fantasies – and there is an argument that much thinking about the multiverse should be treated exactly the same way.

Last month I interviewed Lee Smolin, founder of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada, one of many big thinkers who have big problems with the multiverse. In his newly published book Time Reborn, he makes the case that although it’s a popular notion our universe is part of a vast or infinite multiverse; it’s based on “a methodological error”. One which he says “cannot lead to any real scientific progress, because we cannot conform or falsify any hypothesis about universes causally disconnected from our own”.

-BBC reporter Quentin Cooper

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Thus the multiverse theory has difficulty making any firm predictions and threatens to take us out of the realm of science.

- Lee Smolin

Added to read next. Thank you, sincerely! I love this troll version of you the best by far and hope every time it is the actual you. You have so much more to teach and people are much more apt to listen when lessons aren't prefaced with, "hey retard."

If you're not a reader, then you can watch the guaranteed to be not as good, but probably still pretty good compared to other Hollywood crap movie version of The Martian this October.



It is Ridley Scott, so there's a pretty good chance it won't completely suck.