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The best science and medicine books

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Laugh? Not even slightly. I personally enjoy books that make the hard sciences accessible.

You should feel no shame stepping up to that plate. You do not only stand upon the shoulders of giants, you stand among them, rubbing shoulders with Newton and Einstein et al. You should be lauded.
That's a tad grandiose for something I read on the toilet.

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remarkale book ..I follow the trend on the change in view of animal minds over the last few decades and this one blew my mind .....clever creatures ....'cept for certain behavioral scientists.
 
Hands of Light

Barbara Brennan, a former NASA physicist, wrote "Hands of Light". It was published in 1987. I believe it to be the best science and medicine book I know of.
There are pictures of what we look like outside of these bodies. There are pictures of what we look like as holograms. There are pictures of the vortices that spin us into being, constantly.
Apparently, creation is constant because energy is pulsating, spinning, rotating, vibrating and resonating constantly.
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Nothing is solid, so we must be holograms.
In my 20's I found books on physics having nothing to do with math. I learned that this reality is not what people say it is. Since nothing is solid, then many dimensions share the same space. I believe that I became acquainted with at least one light/energy being that vibrated in another dimension when I was a child. This being I felt near me. When that one parent was raging at me, the voice of this energy being calmed me. Seems the intention was that I try to understand why this person, that was supposed to be my mother, was so stressed out all the time.
I knew that there was no death then and said so. After reading many books on the subject, I am still convinced that death is a lie. I have felt an energy being fly through me, walk in to me, and lie next to me. This is only a few examples. Since I am not solid, then why not?
Since solidity has never been found, then why don't we all know this?:confused:
 
Bill Bryson- A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. A truly enjoyable book. Even if you already know almost everything in the book you will enjoy the style and humor of his perspective and narration.

Siddhartha Mukherjee- The Emperor of All Maladies- A very readable and accessible explanation of the biology of cancer. It was also turned into a documentary by Ken Burns.
 
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Warning, not for everyone and by no means exclusively a science book: Vikram Chandra- Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty- an odd but (IMO) ultimately intriguing discussion that brings together computer coding, human language, aesthetics, and Indian philosophy/mythology/history. Written by a novelist/coder it is NOT a religious or new wave touchy/feely treatise, but instead an interesting discussion of what is considered elegant coding, what is not, and why. It also discusses the culture of Silicon Valley and how coders rank themselves in the hierarchy of hackers up through the coding elite. And it makes interesting comparisons between the organization of different human and computer languages. Overall the book is a long and twisty path, parts are heavy with history and philosophy, and I did not agree with every point Chandra sought to make. But I enjoyed the trip.
 
Warning, not for everyone and by no means exclusively a science book: Vikram Chandra- Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty- an odd but (IMO) ultimately intriguing discussion that brings together computer coding, human language, aesthetics, and Indian philosophy/mythology/history. Written by a novelist/coder it is NOT a religious or new wave touchy/feely treatise, but instead an interesting discussion of what is considered elegant coding, what is not, and why. It also discusses the culture of Silicon Valley and how coders rank themselves in the hierarchy of hackers up through the coding elite. And it makes interesting comparisons between the organization of different human and computer languages. Overall the book is a long and twisty path, parts are heavy with history and philosophy, and I did not agree with every point Chandra sought to make. But I enjoyed the trip.
I recently listened the book of Donald R. Prothero "Evolution..."

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters: Adapted for Audio https://www.amazon.com/dp/1522664661/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_hKKWAbXG1YJC7

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Coming from me, these two should probably have amounted to expected and typical.

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Probably too heavy for a casual read, but most of it can be followed without an in-depth mathematical degree. Too bad its often a textbook, meaning that it isn't as often read for personal interest and knowledge enhancement. His lecture series used to appear online, I haven't seen them lately, but it is worth reading for those with a desire for a more detailed understanding. Though much of this is also true of the next offering, it is a bit more casual reading "friendly."

If you want to understand the basic building blocks of planetary climate (ours and others throughout the solar system and universe) this is the primer. "The Principles of Planetary Climate" is Climate Science 101

http://www.amazon.com/Global-Carbon-Princeton-Primers-Climate/dp/0691144141/ref=pd_cp_b_2

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As alluded to above, While this book is every bit the text, it is much more readable, IMO. the focus of this work is much more on our planet's carbon cycle with respect to its short-term, intermediate term and long-term impacts upon our planet's climate, in the past, present and future.

Weirdly, I actually had a copy of Planetary Climate at that time and likely still do, just not sure which box it will turn up in!!!
 
I have a question aboutNassim Harramein books: Am I right in thinking that he is not a scientist? Or is he one who was then turned to talking about spiritual dimensions?

An answer to this would be much appreciated.
 
Empires of Light; Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the race to electrify the world.
Jill Jonnes. About the inventions that changed everything.
 
Really enjoyable book and learned a hell of a lot.
Otherlands
From a dazzling young palaeontologist and prodigiously talented writer comes the Earth as we've never seen it before

What would it be like to experience the ancient landscapes of the past as we experience the reality of nature today? To actually visit the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among their spectacular flora and fauna, to witness their continental shifts? In Otherlands, the multi-talented palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that are normally unimaginably distant.

Journeying backwards in time from the most recent Ice Age to the dawn of complex life itself, and across all seven continents, Halliday immerses us in sixteen lost ecosystems, each one rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama. Every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the shambling rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in fact. We visit the birthplace of humanity on the shores of the great lake Lonyumun, in Pliocene-era Kenya; in the Miocene, we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the world has ever known as it fills the evaporated Mediterranean Sea; we encounter forests of giant fungus nine metres tall in Devonian-era Scotland; and we gaze at the light of a full and enormous moon in the Ediacaran sky, when life hasn't yet reached land.

To read Otherlands is to time travel, to see the last 550 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fantastical and familiar.
 
Wow! Been a while since the last post in this thread. I've been reading more technical stuff of late, but did happen across Ethan Siegel's book;

'Beyond the Galaxy: How humanity looked beyond our Milky Way and discovered the entire Universe'

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Published in 2015, so pre-JWST, but an excellent account of what we know and how we know it, including historical accounts. Lavishly illustrated, and easily understandable by the interested layman. Thoroughly recommended*.

*Looks a bit pricey. If you need an epub copy....... :)
 
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