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Dave Cole To get books

I stumbled across this great website to buy books and wanted to share with the group, free shipping and no tax from the U.K made buying much cheaper than buying from local bookstores. Try it out, the link is http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/sitemap Continue

Added by Dave Cole on October 27, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Jason 185 by Emily Dickinson

"Faith" is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see-- But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency. Continue

Added by Jason on October 25, 2009 at 7:50am — No Comments

Jorden van Munster Site about Energy transition organisation and news . . . .

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Added by Jorden van Munster on April 17, 2009 at 10:41pm — No Comments

Jorden van Munster Research indicating new info about how to manage green house gasses . . . .

"This research indicates that we can no longer avoid significant warming during this century," Continue

Added by Jorden van Munster on April 17, 2009 at 10:40pm — No Comments

Jorden van Munster Chameleon-like camouflage: 'Nano-camo' for fashionistas and environmentalists

Camouflage outfits that blend with a variety of environments without need of an outside power source Continue

Added by Jorden van Munster on April 17, 2009 at 10:19pm — No Comments

Jorden van Munster A new form of microscope

By clipping the CellScope to a camera-enabled cell phone, PDA or netbook, people in the field, with relatively little training, can collect and organise data . . . . http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/telemicroscopy-disease-diagnosis Continue

Added by Jorden van Munster on April 16, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Andrew Dutton Your inner fish

The concepts in this book were so nicely laid out that you keep saying to yourself, "Of course, it is so obvious!" This book reinforces the notion that nothing in biology makes any sense without evolution. My thoughts turn to intelligence and consciousness - hard to measure and describe, but surely based upon our physiology, which we seem to share with just about everything. So if all creatures great and small are using the same molecular machinery to get around, it seems resonable that they wou… Continue

Added by Andrew Dutton on March 13, 2009 at 5:23pm — No Comments

Dale Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

This was a great book. I finished it in only 3 days which is quick for me. The illustrations are wonderful and give a good beginning grasp on the concept that the structures in the bodies of multicellular organisms are just variations on a theme. I'd like to learn more about embryonic development and I may look up some of his sources in the references section at the end of the book to learn more of the details. I'm specifically interested in vision development and opsin gene expression. I also w… Continue

Added by Dale on February 24, 2009 at 12:26pm — 5 Comments

Scott Bishop One Uping the Creationist

Got one up on the creationist today by explaining evolution to my 3rd grader when she asked if the American Indian in her would last forever. I explained that over time the Cherokee would become diluted like, say, if you poured apple juice in a glass. At first it would be 100% apple juice. If you then added water, it would be less apple juice and more water until over time it was only a little bit apple juice and mostly water, like say, Welch's Apple Juice from concentrate. This lead to a discu… Continue

Added by Scott Bishop on February 23, 2009 at 7:17pm — No Comments

Dave Friedel The Black Hole

I thought this was a cute video. I gasped at the end. Just some fun stuff for the forum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_Msrdg3Hk Continue

Added by Dave Friedel on February 12, 2009 at 10:34pm — No Comments

John Magnus Champlin Just what a Sci (sometimes Fi) Bibliophile is looking for!

This is from a guy that has no TV in his house, and hasn't for 5 years, yet is looking for more bookshelves to tame the unyielding tsunami of books teetering to tumble upon me. "Finished with my last book, can you suggest something else" is a motto I probably bombard my literary friends with far to much than they would like to hear. So, it's nice to find a source of information and fellow readers like this. My previous plan of attack was to go to the Sci-Fi museum in Seattle, and look what boo… Continue

Added by John Magnus Champlin on February 5, 2009 at 3:46pm — 1 Comment

Dave Friedel Groovy

I am finding this site very groovy baby! Yet another place to do color design... that's like crack to me. So is Heroes. Update: After seeing my post on the home page, I decided to do something more productive here, like put my book list up that I built on LivingSocial (via my site redirect). http://wildsignals.com/books Continue

Added by Dave Friedel on February 4, 2009 at 7:10pm — No Comments

George Benskin A Real World Connection!

OK, so I too am trying to wrap my brain around the material in the book. Definitely benefitting from The Universe on the History Channel (Kaku is a regular talking head) and this funny quip from the Economist (Last Paragraph of the Article). It all makes sense now! The Economist: The first protons were circulated around the Large Hadron Coll… Continue

Added by George Benskin on December 19, 2008 at 8:57am — 1 Comment

Dale Quantum Mechanics Joke

I was reading Parallel Worlds today and it reminded me of a joke I had heard on the radio a year or so ago. More of a riddle really. What is the difference between an auto mechanic and a quantum mechanic? A quantum mechanic can park his car in the garage without opening the door. I thought it was funny. Continue

Added by Dale on December 17, 2008 at 11:26pm — 4 Comments

Jason Dr. Kirsten, who are all these people and what are they doing in my computer?

Hello Dr. Kirsten. I hope to finish Parallel Worlds in a few days, and I am looking forward to the discussion. I'll post my impressions when I am done, but for now I just have a couple questions about the discussion itself. How will it be structured? Who is going to be there? I don't often converse with strangers about books over the internet. I'm somewhat internet unsavvy, and it's a little outside my comfort zone. How does Talkshoe work? Is it more like Skype or AIM? I went to the website bu… Continue

Added by Jason on December 13, 2008 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Andrew Dutton Parallel Worlds

Great read, even though string theory suffers from lack of testability and all that. The quantum discussion at the universe level was interesting since I am curious how things are going to end for our universe. I think the current data still indicate that entropy will drive the universe into a state of complete disarray. It was nice to see that there might be a quantum mechanical loophole by which we can move to other universes. But if entropy rules the other universes, won’t they also eventuall… Continue

Added by Andrew Dutton on December 7, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Jason Parallel Worlds RE: David's post...then my post..culminating in "Ode to Kaku"

I had to sit out the last discussion also. I was really sick. And also I too need help with the Talkshoe. I read about 2/3 of Parallel Worlds earlier this year but quit because I sometimes get distracted by shiny new ideas. I'm finding I have to reread the book. I normally retain most of what I read, but as much as I love learning about physics and cosmology (I love that the universe is going to to die and we're going to have to figure out a way to escape it (maybe Kurt Russel will be our ultim… Continue

Added by Jason on December 4, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

David Stevens Parallel Worlds

I read it some years ago and have just reread it. Kaku does a good job of sketching in the history of cosmology and particle physics and what the position was at the time of writing. I don't think anything really has significantly moved on since his book was published, but the Large Hadron Collider might provide some of the evidence needed to back up M theory. Let's hope. However, there are some pretty far out ideas for us to discuss and I am looking forward to the Talkshoe gathering. I had to s… Continue

Added by David Stevens on December 4, 2008 at 6:39pm — No Comments

Scott Bishop Cosmology = a great source for lousy puns.

Aside from the fact that this book is blowing my mind, I've also discovered a new great source for my comedy routine - one that promises to baffle rather than amuse. For example, how many tasteless jokes can be made at the expense of negative energy? "Dude, he's so dense and full of negative energy, if you got too close to him you'd be suck into the verse of lameness." Continue

Added by Scott Bishop on December 4, 2008 at 12:16pm — 1 Comment

Jamie Comments on Parallel Worlds

I'm in Chapter Five and am very much enjoying the book and its effect on me. It's really causing me to do a lot of pondering and I keep coming up with all of these ideas I'd love to bounce off of an astrophysicist or two. :P - But since I don't have any around I've been bouncing them off of the eight year old instead, which has gone over amazingly well. He is great because he gets as excited as I do about it and he comes up with his own set of thoughts and ideas. My favorite so far was today whe… Continue

Added by Jamie on December 1, 2008 at 11:13pm — 5 Comments

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