On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell by
> Luca Turin: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061133841
Apparently, some new evidence for Turin's theory:
http://dev.thedailysmell.com/2011/03/31/vibration-theory-of-smell/
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Charles Haynes
wrote:
> Currently reading "Don't Sleep There Are Snakes" by Daniel Everett
> about his life among the Pirahã Indians in the Amazon jungle. What
> hooked me was the teaser that he had gone there as a missionary to
> convert them, and ended up being
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At 2009-05-12 12:58:08 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote:
>
> Does anyone else have a problem with the fora.tv server dropping the
> connection every few seconds?
Yes. wget -c handled it, though I had to restart it once (after it
reached its "dropped connection" limit and gave up).
-- ams
2009/5/6 Thaths
>
> Everett spoke at the Long Now Foundation talk a month ago. The mp3 of
> his talk is at:
>
> http://fora.tv/media/rss/Long_Now_Podcasts/podcast-2009-03-20-everett.mp3
>
Does anyone else have a problem with the fora.tv server dropping the
connection every few seconds? I managed
lk] Best Science book you would recommend to a friend ?
>
> In a related but different vein, I'm interested in finding more books
> like _QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter_ or _Naive set
> theory_.
>
> Any suggestions for science books which actually manage to hit t
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Bharat Shetty wrote:
> A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
> science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
> some science fiction.
>
I would strongly recommend both these books :
'the case of the midwife to
Dave Long wrote, [on 5/7/2009 6:40 PM]:
> In a related but different vein, I'm interested in finding more books
> like _QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter_ or _Naive set theory_.
>
> Any suggestions for science books which actually manage to hit that
> elusive median, where the calculati
In a related but different vein, I'm interested in finding more books
like _QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter_ or _Naive set
theory_.
Any suggestions for science books which actually manage to hit that
elusive median, where the calculations are neither too daunting for
novices n
Charles Haynes [07/05/09 10:52 +1000]:
"We don't kill those," they said. "They eat cockroaches and do no harm."
Much - even occasional painful bites - can be forgiven an efficient eater
of cockroaches.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
> I am ripe for a lifestyle change. Two hours a day of work sounds
> exactly right. Where exactly does this tribe live?
S 7° 21.642' W 62° 16.313' according to the book.
Of course I left out the part where they have no electricity, no
1) Longitude by Dava Sobel. Slim book but reads like a thriller. I
never imagined that the discovery of longitude was filled with so much
intrigue and backstabbing.
2) The professor and the madman on how the Oxford English Dictionary
was created. This was the original collaborative project that pr
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Charles Haynes
wrote:
> Currently reading "Don't Sleep There Are Snakes" by Daniel Everett
> about his life among the Pirahã Indians in the Amazon jungle. What
> hooked me was the teaser that he had gone there as a missionary to
> convert them, and ended up being "
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Bharat Shetty wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
> science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
> some science fiction.
>
> So venerable silk-listers, I would like to know what would have
Not really science, but natural history:
1. Song of the Dodo - David Quammen (and everything else by him, especially
this essays)
2. The Beauty of the Beastly - Natalie Angier
3. Consilience, Future of Life and all other books by - E O Wilson
4. Stones of Silence - George Schaller
And if you wa
> The ascent of man (anthropology) - the BBC series of the same name in book
> form.
Not to be confused with Darwin's work, it turns out the book is not just a
novelization of the series, but based on it.
More at http://www.strategicforesight.com/bookreview_ascentofman.htm
Kiran
Abhishek Hazra wrote, [on 5/6/2009 10:34 AM]:
>>> And on that note, _Godel, Escher, Bach_.
>
> Finally!! i was waiting with eager anticipation for GEB to pop-up,
> particularity given its silk list.
> and Udhay, had you invited Rucker too ? or is he already a lurker?
No to both questions, AFAIK
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Charles Haynes
wrote:
> Currently reading "Don't Sleep There Are Snakes" by Daniel Everett
> about his life among the Pirahã Indians in the Amazon jungle.
Everett spoke at the Long Now Foundation talk a month ago. The mp3 of
his talk is at:
http://fora.tv/media/r
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
>
> Wow Charles. Must get hold of this book. A human being with no words
> for numbers? Incredible
>
> Deepa.
>
>
Deepa - you can hear a lecture that Daniel Everett gave about the Pirahã
Indians from the Long Now foundation - http://is.gd/r
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Charles Haynes
wrote:
> Currently reading "Don't Sleep There Are Snakes" by Daniel Everett
> about his life among the Pirahã Indians in the Amazon jungle. What
> hooked me was the teaser that he had gone there as a missionary to
> convert them, and ended up being "
Currently reading "Don't Sleep There Are Snakes" by Daniel Everett
about his life among the Pirahã Indians in the Amazon jungle. What
hooked me was the teaser that he had gone there as a missionary to
convert them, and ended up being "converted." But what's got me so I
can't put it down is his fasc
*Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History* - Penny Le Couteur
and Jay Burreson
*Flatland* - Edwin A. Abbott (not exactly science, but WIN nevertheless)
Anything Gamow wrote is quite enjoyable, particularly *Mr. Tompkins in
Wonderland* and *1, 2, 3...Infinity*.
James Watson's *The Double
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> And on that note, _Godel, Escher, Bach_.
An interesting factoid (as put forward by the Landmark store locally)
is that GEB seems to fly off the shelves together with any book from
Feynman and, sometimes on Feynman ex. Genius: The Life and
>> And on that note, _Godel, Escher, Bach_.
Finally!! i was waiting with eager anticipation for GEB to pop-up,
particularity given its silk list.
and Udhay, had you invited Rucker too ? or is he already a lurker?
that book of Rucker is of course, brilliant. (including little gems like
describing G
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Aside: I once invited Douglas Hofstadter to silklist, and received a
> polite, though terse, note that he was not interested in the internet at
> all.
Oh..that's really VERY interestingI would have thought that he, of
all people, woul
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 8:28:08 am Bharat Shetty wrote:
>>> > Hi *,
>>> >
>>> > A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
>>> > science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
>>> > some s
ss wrote, [on 5/6/2009 10:13 AM]:
> Something by George Gamow would be a good idea.
This reminds me (via the alchemy of free association) of one book that
quite literally changed my life: _Infinity and the Mind_ by Rudy Rucker.
And on that note, _Godel, Escher, Bach_.
Aside: I once invited Dougl
>
>> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 8:28:08 am Bharat Shetty wrote:
>> > Hi *,
>> >
>> > A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
>> > science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
>> > some science fiction.
>> >
>> > So venerable silk-listers, I would
:)
Watson, in his sequel to Double Helix (Genes, Girls and Gamow) has some
wonderful recollection on his friendship with Gamow and their work at
cracking the genetic code. and added benefit of the book are the multiple
facsimile reproductions of letters written by Gamow to Watson. (with all his
doo
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 8:28:08 am Bharat Shetty wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
> science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
> some science fiction.
>
> So venerable silk-listers, I would like to know what would h
cists - from Galileo to Hawking by William H Cropper - life and
times with an introduction to the concepts they discovered etc.
Kiran
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Subject: [silk] Best Science book you would recommend to a friend ?
From: Bharat Shetty
Date: 06/05/2009 8:29 am
Hi *,
A friend asked me mi
Bharat Shetty wrote, [on 5/6/2009 8:28 AM]:
> A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
> science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
> some science fiction.
In addition to those already recommended, some slightly more unusual ones:
The Stuff
talking of literature and science, if you have liked the Proust book, then
you might also like Alan Lightman, particularly his Einstein's Dreams
http://humanistic.mit.edu/people/faculty/homepage/lightman
and of course, there is Schrodinger's original "What is Life" (the Canto
edition includes Mind
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Bharat Shetty wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
> science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
> some science fiction.
>
> So venerable silk-listers, I would like to know what would have
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Bharat Shetty wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
> science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
> some science fiction.
>
>From my reading list (these books are very unlike Sagan, Bryson
just a quick, random one, not in any particular order)
_ One, Two Three Infinity by George Gamow (or even his Mr. Tompkins books)
_ On Being the Right Size and other essays by JBS Haldane
_ Any Oliver Sacks Book (my favorite is Uncle Tungsten - memories of a
chemical boyhood)
_ Any Stephen Jay Goul
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Bharat Shetty wrote:
> Ok, from what I've discussed with him, he has done the Bryson thing
> and Carl Sagan's Cosmos as well. I remember him telling that he wanted
> something similar to them.
Here are some in the same vein:
* Mathematics: From the birth of Number
Thanks for pointers so far.
Ok, from what I've discussed with him, he has done the Bryson thing
and Carl Sagan's Cosmos as well. I remember him telling that he wanted
something similar to them.
Best,
-- Bharat | http://twitter.com/shettyb
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Thaths wrote:
> On Tu
Surely, you are joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman.
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Bharat Shetty wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
> science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
> some science fiction.
>
> So ven
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
wrote:
> A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson is an interesting read.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/0767908171
*cough* top-post *cough*
Speaking of that book there was a good AskMefi threa
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson is an interesting read.
http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/0767908171
- Venkat
On 5/6/09, Bharat Shetty wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
> science book to read", an
Hi *,
A friend asked me minutes ago - "suggest to me, a nice and interesting
science book to read", and I was clueless on what to suggest, except
some science fiction.
So venerable silk-listers, I would like to know what would have been
your answer, if you were asked the same question ?
-- Bhara
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