What'cha Reading?

[cosmic royal]

1984.

 

[Mole]

The Hidden Life of Trees a surprising and heart warming book based on science but enlivened by the imagination, click on The Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate – Brain Pickings

 

[SearchingforPeace]

just read Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe.....beautiful takedown of Chomsky's linguistics as being mostly BS, as well as raising interesting questions into the development of science as we know it.....

 

[Mal12345]

Wuthering heights (because I must, i'm in english phylology....) but what I love reading is divulgative science articles and that stuff

But does it lead to a job?

 

[Mal12345]

Brain Wave, by Poul Anderson

 

[Mal12345]

That book starts out with a rabbit whose increased intellect allowed it to escape from a trap set by a hunter.

Hmmm, I don't think that would be possible. It's not intelligence a rabbit lacks, but brain structure. The book states that electrochemical energy in all brains became more energetic and can travel more quickly. Neurons recover a few milliseconds faster after firing. But in order for the rabbit to do what it did, it would have to grow a cerebral cortex.

 

[ilikeitlikethat]

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from Seven Novels by Jules Verne from Barnes & Noble.

Jubilant like an escaped prisoner, the harpooner tired of life on board the Nautilus, Ned Land didn't care if there were tigers on the island, he was so tired of fish he said if he saw a tiger he'd shoot it and eat it just like it were venison; M. Aronnax and his servant Conseil were rowing and the professor (M. Aronnax) feared hostile natives on this desert island in the Pacific and would rather be free in his prison; The ever wandering Nautilus - instead.

 

[Kas]

I've just finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I think that my knowledge about the Universe expanded.

 

[Lord Lavender]

Just read the Gunslinger series by Stephen King. They are awesome and the characters stick with you. I almost miss them almost as they were real people i actually net not just text on a page.

 

[Joyful Expressions]

Personality Types by Don Richard Riso

 

[Abendrot]

The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Collection of Short Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Hesiod's Theogony

 

[Forever]

Personality Types by Don Richard Riso

I have that with Wisdom of the Enneagram both great books.

 

[Forever]

I swear there needs to be a standardized way of teaching O Chem. I've seen 3 different text books all up to date and they don't match each other.

Language Warning:

FUCK

 

[belgianvalid]

A Brief History of the Human Race, Michael Cook.

Have only turned the first page, so far.

-Geoff

Haven't read the book yet. Is it good?

 

[Abendrot]

A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.

 

[Not-Haight]

Tools of Titans

Hopefully, the follow-up will be Titans of Tools.

Seems more appropriate.

 

[Not-Haight]

A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.

Excellent. I have read that myself.

. . . and he's my hero.

 

[Abendrot]

Excellent. I have read that myself.

. . . and he's my hero.

Nice . So far it's one of the most interesting books I've ever picked up.

 

[cosmic royal]

A manhwa called The Flower of Evil.

 

[julesiscools]

Rereading Peter Pan, it's an old favorite.