Category: Books
Recommended reading
Stanisław Lem
Maritime History
| Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel | |
| The Endurance : Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition – Caroline Alexander | |
| The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty – Caroline Alexander | |
| The Pirate Wars – Peter Earle | |
| The Civil War at Sea – Craig L. Symonds | |
| War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II – Nathan Miller | |
| The Vikings: A History – Robert Ferguson | |
| Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson |
John Hodgman
Adam Rutherford
Anti-intellectualism
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” Isaac Asimov, born on this day in 1920 pic.twitter.com/ijhBkxkMfO
— Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) January 2, 2020
Newtonian Swag: 2019
| Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History – Adam Rutherford | |
| Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms – John Hodgman | |
| Terraformer – Thank You Scientist | |
| LEGO Steamboat Willie Building Kit |
Nonfiction
| Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | |
| Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow |
Science
- Sean Carroll
- Martin Gardner
- Brian Greene
- Stephen Hawking
- Carlo Rovelli
- Adam Rutherford
- Carl Sagan
- Leonard Susskind
| Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – Albert Einstein | |
| QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter – Richard P. Feynman | |
| The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe – Roger Penrose | |
| The Anthropic Principle: Man as the Focal Point of Nature – Reinhard Breuer | |
| Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?) – Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw | |
| The Origin of the Universe – John D. Barrow | |
| The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe – Paul Davies | |
| The Origin of Humankind – Richard Leakey | |
| The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine – Charles Petzold |
The Origin of Species
