Adrian's bookshelf: science en-US Sun, 30 Jun 2019 07:50:15 -0700 60 Adrian's bookshelf: science 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary]]> 1981704

How do microwave ovens cook food, and why does metal sometimes cause sparks in a microwave? How does an iPod use numbers to represent music? How do CDs and DVDs use light to convey information, and why are they so colorful? How can a CT or MRI image show a cross-sectional view of a person without actually entering the body? Why do golf balls have dimples? How does a pitcher make a curveball curve and knuckleball jitter about in an erratic manner? Why is the sun red at sunrise and sunset? How does a fluorescent lamp produce visible light? You don't need a science or engineering background to understand How Everything Works, all you need is an active curiosity about the extraordinary world all around you.]]> 736 Louis A. Bloomfield 0470170662 Adrian 4 science 4.07 How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary
author: Louis A. Bloomfield
name: Adrian
average rating: 4.07
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rating: 4
read at: 2008/01/01
date added: 2019/06/30
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]]> The Selfish Gene 61535
Chapters:
1. Why are people?
2. The replicators
3. Immortal coils
4. The gene machine
5. Aggression stability and the selfish machine
6. Genesmanship
7. Family planning
8. Battle of the generations
9. Battle of the sexes
10. You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours
11. Memes: the new replicators
12. Nice guys finish first
13. The long reach of the gene]]> 360 Richard Dawkins 0199291152 Adrian 5 science 4.15 1976 The Selfish Gene
author: Richard Dawkins
name: Adrian
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1976
rating: 5
read at: 2007/11/01
date added: 2017/03/22
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality]]> 22435 The fabric of the cosmos 569 Brian Greene 0965900584 Adrian 3 science 4.12 2004 The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
author: Brian Greene
name: Adrian
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 2008/09/01
date added: 2012/11/15
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Buzz: the arrow of time, special relativity, general relativity, invariance theory, Heisenberg's principle, quantum entanglement, S = k log W -- entropy, hairless black holes, quantum history, quantum interference, translational symmetry, cosmic microwave background radiation, the cosmic flow, the Higgs ocean, gravitons, the electroweak force, cosmic horizons, quantum jitters, vacuum fluctuations, Plank length and time, up- down- charm- strange- bottom- top-quarks, neutrinos, supersymmetric string theory, M-theory, p-branes, the braneworld scenario, the big splat, selectrons and squarks, quantum averaging, the holographic principle, loop quantum gravity, and zero-branes.
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