Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Monday, September 9, 2024

Less toxic & more-effective nanoparticulate MRNA vaccines & therapeutics

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Everyone has personal experience with the  'miracle" vaccines used from 2019 - 2021.  The MRNA delivery mechanism for those and oth...
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier (2020)

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This book is much better than I expected. The author is a journalist who does a very good job of presenting the science through the words an...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Fission-powered rockets will fly!

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Remember my rant about how 1950's technology is the cat's pajamas and still unsurpassed? We are finally starting serious steps to ...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships are built, broken, repaired by Peter H Kim (2023)

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This book is terrible. The Science in it is shockingly bad.  The topics covered are about taking offense, unrelated to trust. I kept hoping ...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

1950’s Tech still unsurpassed

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I am burdened with cognitive biases. I have sensibilities, ethics, and judgements from an earlier era. I look at large-scale human pursuits...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W Anthony

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The beginning and end of this book are interesting and enjoyable, but the majority of the details in the middle are really boring, 2/5 Stars...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Moon Dust as an earth cooling Parasol?

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(cumulative attenuation from a monodisperse cloud of particles with total mass Mcloud = 109 kg at https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

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Thinking in Systems : My friend Senthil asks for and shares book recommendations with me.  His 2022 list included this title so I added it ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

From Strength to Strength by Arthur C Brooks

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Fantastic book with good scholarship, interesting anecdotes about famous musicians, good evidence-based science, and a very compelling take ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Intelligence & Personality

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This fascinating preprint appeared today in psyarchiv ( https://psyarxiv.com/ar6g3/ ).  Personally, I have always found personality intrins...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know about the Word

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The information in this book is mostly covered in Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning . But the numbers themselves...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

If you think you know what a proton is

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  Think again and read  this interesting summary of recent research .  In particular, try to explain how what we currently perceive as a ...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark

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Max Shapiro (Tegmark) writes better for a popular science audience than Roger Penrose.  But having just read Cycles of Time, I am wondering ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Brain Rules for Aging Well by John Medina

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Great! 5/5 stars!
Monday, January 20, 2020

Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose

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I don't have enough physics to understand why one cosmological concept is more appealing than others.  The concept is cool, though, 2/5 ...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose

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The first few chapters, Turing machines formalisms, and walk (inadequate) summary of Gödel's incompleteness theorems were terrible.  How...