I mostly read science and evidence-based non-fiction that fill in my understanding of the world.
I’m branching into fiction more and am hoping to find the niches that I enjoy. Hard science and adventure fiction like Jurassic Park and The Lost World are favorites. I think books that blend in realism and are somewhat believable might be my thing.
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
The corollary, one that the United States sometimes fails to grasp, is that abandoning science is the road back into poverty and backwardness.
— The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (10%)
The dinosaurs are back on earth--alive, now, in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.
The story, told with an almost documentary …
It's been six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and …
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a 2017 popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, centering around a number …
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths …