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Science books, but fun?
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Hi guys, any suggestion will be welcomed. I just read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson and it was a cool read.
I wonder if any of you have suggestions, let me know
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Asimov wrote some wonderful books, but I suspect they are ridiculously dated now.
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I thought "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language" was pretty good. I used it when I took orgo chem.
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Any book by Stephen J Gould. He was a great writer...
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Whoa, there's a man down.
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Seconded the Asimov and Gould above.
The Feynman autobiography "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" is great fun and incidental scientific literature, for obvious reasons.
It comes with a pretty good introduction to safecracking in one of the chapters - the one where he's working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, no less! -, as well. 
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Pick up any chemistry book. The subject is inherently fun and interesting. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. 
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Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 
Whoa, there's a man down.
lets hope the post in this thread wasn't the reason why.
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****, we're all dead! Get the **** out!
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Originally Posted by lavar78
Pick up any chemistry book. The subject is inherently fun and interesting. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
Yeah totally
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The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose discusses computers, minds and physics. Another choice might be Chaos by Gleick. sam
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In Search of Schrodinger's Cat - truly messes with your mind
Einstein's Dreams - short and entertaining
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Anything by Dr Karl Kruszeniks
Dr Karl's Homepage
He's an Aussie writer, has about a dozen books out. His books deal with common myths of science, and assorted interesting sciency things.
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Originally Posted by Spook E
Anything by Dr Karl Kruszeniks
Dr Karl's Homepage
He's an Aussie writer, has about a dozen books out. His books deal with common myths of science, and assorted interesting sciency things.
Man, I was just going to suggest that. Dr. Karl FTW!
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