5/13/2023 0 Comments Science Made Stupid by Tom Weller![]() There are two forms of scientific method, the inductive and the deductive. Then they perform experiments to test their hypotheses. The cornerstone of modern science is the scientific method. Science represents mankind's deepest aspirations - aspirations to power, to wealth, to the satisfaction of It is a way ofĪchieving mastery over the physical world by threatening it with destruction. It is a way of obtaining fat government grants. Uninitiated with incomprehensible jargon. Put most simply, science is a way of dealing with the world around us. ![]() To the former questions, at least, science has provided answers. Go? Am I on the right bus? Who do you like in the series? He looked in his wallet and asked: where did my paycheck ![]() Later, he began to ask more complicated questions. Has looked at himself and wondered: where did I come from? Looked at the great diversity of plants and animals around him and wondered: where did life come from? He Since the dawn of time, man has looked to the heavens and wondered: where did the stars come from? He has ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Mount everest book into thin air![]() ![]() Jon Krakauer expounds on the challenges of climbing Mt. Into Thin Air is a bestselling nonfiction book based on the personal experiences of the Mt. ![]() “Into Thin Air ranks among the great adventure books of all time.” - The Wall Street Journal By the time I’d descended to Base Camp, nine climbers from four expeditions were dead, and three more lives would be lost before the month was out.” “Among my five teammates who reached the top, four, including Hall, perished in a rogue storm that blew in without warning while we were still high on the peak. 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We're now just days away from the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (previously known as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2), which arrives on Switch on 12th May 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() From there, Kit's life becomes immersed in the Crown's intelligence work, and suddenly he finds himself spying on the Scottish queen and breaking codes to reveal secret plots against Elizabeth. Kit is in his last year of study at Cambridge when he's approached by none other than Elizabeth's spymaster himself, and sent on an undercover mission to the household of Mary, Queen of Scots. This novel, spanning the years 1585-1593, follows this theory. I knew that he had run in similar circles to William Shakespeare - becoming a notable playwright in London's Bankside district, and that he had died in a horrendous eye-stabbing at a London pub - popularly explained by "a disagreement over the bill." But one thing I hadn't heard before was that he was suspected to have been a covert spy within Sir Francis Walsingham's intelligence network, serving Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I. Tudor enthusiasts, how much do you know about Christopher "Kit" Marlowe? His is a name we hear occasionally throughout our study of Elizabethan history (particularly regarding playwrights and poets), but have you ever spent a lot of time studying his life? I'll be the first to say that I hadn't, and my knowledge of Kit's life was very scant prior to picking up this new novel by Allison Epstein. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Yuval harari sapiens![]() ![]() ![]() Think of the next American presidential race in 2024, and try to imagine the impact of AI tools that can be made to mass-produce political content, fake-news stories and scriptures for new cults. What will happen to the school system when kids do that? But this kind of question misses the big picture. What would happen once a non-human intelligence becomes better than the average human at telling stories, composing melodies, drawing images, and writing laws and scriptures? When people think about Chat GPT and other new AI tools, they are often drawn to examples like school children using AI to write their essays. Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff were not particularly good at creating real value, but they were all extremely capable storytellers. What gives money value is the stories that bankers, finance ministers and cryptocurrency gurus tell us about it. ![]() Banknotes are just colourful pieces of paper, and at present more than 90% of money is not even banknotes-it is just digital information in computers. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Hacking darwin jamie metzl![]() Passionate, provocative, and highly illuminating, Hacking Darwin is the must-listen audiobook about the future of our species for fans of Homo Deus and The Gene. ![]() When we can engineer our future children, massively extend our lifespans, build life from scratch, and recreate the plant and animal world, should we? 'A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril.' Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GenePassionate, provocative, and highly illuminating, Hacking Darwin is the must read book about the. Look towards a future where our deepest beliefs, morals, religions, and politics are challenged like never before and the very essence of what it means to be human is at play. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code, the choices we make today will be the difference between realizing breathtaking advances in human well-being and descending into a dangerous and potentially deadly genetic arms race.Įnter the laboratories where scientists are turning science fiction into reality. If you can only read one book on the future of our species, this is it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamie is a gifted writer and his explanation of genetics are crisp, accurate, and wonderfully engaging. From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death.Īt the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. 'In many ways, Jamie Metzl has been preparing Hacking Darwin for the last 20 years and his diligence shines through. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The witcher book 1 the last wish![]() Still feeling the burn of reading through George R. At the time that I learned of a Witcher novel series, they had yet to be translated from Polish to English. ![]() Therefore, I decided to prolong my enjoyment by reading the Witcher novels first!Īs usual with fans of fiction based upon a book series, they would claim the literature’s superiority. I invested 120 hours of blissful gameplay with Witcher 3, yet never played its two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, despite purchasing them, not wanting the excellence of the chronicles to end. As CD Projekt RED escalates its marketing for Cyberpunk 2077, so too have I scheduled my life in anticipation of its release. ![]() The first game alerted me into the franchise’s universe despite its jank the second game utterly enthralled me the thir d put to rest my vacillating when asked what is the greatest game of all time. It is no small secret among the staff in the video game department at Geeks Under Grace that I am incorrigible in my Witcher fandom. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Lord of the Wings by Donna Andrews![]() ![]() area and joined the communications staff of a large financial organization, where for two decades she honed her writing skills on nonfiction and developed a profound understanding of the criminal mind through her observation of interdepartmental politics. ![]() After graduation, she moved to the Washington, D.C. These days she spends almost as much time in cyberspace as Turing Hopper, the artificial intelligence who appears in her technocozy series from Berkley Prime Crime.Īlthough she read widely as a child, especially in fantasy and science fiction, her love of mystery developed during her college years (and particularly at exam time.) Andrews attended the University of Virginia, majoring in English and Drama with a concentration on writing. Martin’s Press, Donna Andrews was born and raised in Yorktown, Virginia. ![]() Like Meg Langslow, the ornamental blacksmith heroine of her series from St. Donna Andrews: Overview of Author And Her Books In This guide, we provide a profile of the author, along with the complete list of series and books written by her and their order. Her Agatha and Anthony winning Meg Langslow series has more than 30 installments and her “Turing Hopper” books are delightful. Donna Andrews is one the most familiar names in cozy mystery space and certainly a towering figure in the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wendy's only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess-it all makes her wish things could be different. ![]() What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland.with Captain Hook? Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling's life is not what she imagined it would be. The problem is, no one believes Clark, and when his mom tries to rid the house of stuffed animals to try to get him to grow up, she's actually putting Clark's dad and the entire household in mortal peril. Clark's dad is under attack by a nefarious, shadowy monster called a King Derker, and only Clark's stuffies are able to fight him off. Sometimes they move around in the night and sometimes in the morning they look a little worse for wear, as if they've engaged in battle. But Clark can't shake the feeling that his stuffed friends are important, even necessary. He's almost eleven! Bullies target him at school while his mother tries increasingly un-subtle ways to wean him off his toys and introduce more "normal" interests. Everyone thinks that Clark is too old to still play with stuffed animals. ![]() ![]() You have been chosen to join us, in the dark and in the light, in love and in cloth, in safety and in danger. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Crescent city sky and breath![]() I especially hate starting book 2s and 3s with unfamiliar characters. House of Sky and Breath starts with a prologue. ![]() ![]() House of Sky and Breath Review – Spoiler-Free Read the spoiler one at your own risk, but it’s primarily a place for me to gush with others who have finished and NEED to talk about it. As we get ready to dive into my House of Sky and Breath review, I want you to know that I’ve divided into a spoiler-free and spoiler discussion section. If you had a similar experience, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below. Without reservation or hesitation, I hit that download button and began to dive into what will end up being probably the most epic book I read all year. I refreshed my email I don’t know how many times in the minutes following 9 PM until 9:05 when the email finally came that my e-book had arrived. If you are anything like me, you were sitting there on Monday, February14th at a minute to midnight on the East Coast (which happens to be 9 PM for me) waiting for the e-book release. I devoured it as fast as I could and here’s my House of Sky and Breath review for your viewing pleasure. ![]() It’s no exaggeration for me to say that House of Sky and Breath is/was my most anticipated book of 2022. ![]() |