Recommend your favorite Science or Technology book.
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We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's
This controversial Dutch doctor says that everything about human beings can be explained by the biology of our brains. It was interesting, for example, to read that natural labor is triggered by the baby's brain communicating with the mother's brain, when the mother can no longer provide enough nutrition to sustain the baby. He is also quite matter-of-fact about gender orientation being determined in the brain before birth. He condemns boxing, which is quite popular in where I live, as a form on inflicting deliberate neurological damage on one another and says that all religious experiences can be explained as hallucinations. He also explains the biology of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Any paper of this book is a very readable, even funny toward the end of many chapters.
In the end I did really enjoy reading this book. A lot of the things that Swaab writes about are from his own experience, which results in a fascination for his dedication to research. On the other hand he does tend to turn down the beliefs of some other scientists, which bothered me at first. However the extremely sassy manner in which he does this makes him seem less serious, which works really well for the entertainment that this book offers.
This controversial Dutch doctor says that everything about human beings can be explained by the biology of our brains. It was interesting, for example, to read that natural labor is triggered by the baby's brain communicating with the mother's brain, when the mother can no longer provide enough nutrition to sustain the baby. He is also quite matter-of-fact about gender orientation being determined in the brain before birth. He condemns boxing, which is quite popular in where I live, as a form on inflicting deliberate neurological damage on one another and says that all religious experiences can be explained as hallucinations. He also explains the biology of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Any paper of this book is a very readable, even funny toward the end of many chapters.
In the end I did really enjoy reading this book. A lot of the things that Swaab writes about are from his own experience, which results in a fascination for his dedication to research. On the other hand he does tend to turn down the beliefs of some other scientists, which bothered me at first. However the extremely sassy manner in which he does this makes him seem less serious, which works really well for the entertainment that this book offers.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.
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Cheers,
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Awesome book. On my all-time favorires list.
I also have his DARK SUN somewhere
I really like the geology and paleontology fields, so one of my favorite science books is A Guide to Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Age Plant Fossils of Southwest Virginia. It's not very well known, so I'm going to guess that probably no one else has heard of this one.
http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/
data base out of france for the sky
data base out of france for the sky
"What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks: More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics" was pretty fun.
Now I read 'Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review'.
I work as a mobile app developer, so sometimes I read books about AI. Also, I read blogs like https://madappgang.com/blog/how-to-develop-a-medicine-delivery-app/ this post about application development.
I think that it's a great way to share your knowledge and experience, and reading such articles is worth it.
I work as a mobile app developer, so sometimes I read books about AI. Also, I read blogs like https://madappgang.com/blog/how-to-develop-a-medicine-delivery-app/ this post about application development.
I think that it's a great way to share your knowledge and experience, and reading such articles is worth it.
Wehner/Gehring: Zoology
Schlegel/Fuchs: General Microbiology
Knippers: Molecular Genetics
Silbernagl/Despopoulos: Pocket Atlas Physiology
Liem/Bemis/Walker/Grande: Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates
Kandel/Schwartz/Jessell: Principles of Neural Science
Bear/Connors/Paradiso: Neuroscience - Exploring the Brain
Nieuwenhuys/Donkelaar/Nicholson: The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates
Nieuwenhuys/Voogd/Huijzen: The Human Central Nervous System
Valerius/Duncker: Photo Atlas Neuroanatomy
Schoonover: Portraits of the Mind
And some of the Haynes Manuals: Apollo 11, Space Shuttle, Bird of Prey, USS Enterprise, DeLorean Time Machine
Schlegel/Fuchs: General Microbiology
Knippers: Molecular Genetics
Silbernagl/Despopoulos: Pocket Atlas Physiology
Liem/Bemis/Walker/Grande: Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates
Kandel/Schwartz/Jessell: Principles of Neural Science
Bear/Connors/Paradiso: Neuroscience - Exploring the Brain
Nieuwenhuys/Donkelaar/Nicholson: The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates
Nieuwenhuys/Voogd/Huijzen: The Human Central Nervous System
Valerius/Duncker: Photo Atlas Neuroanatomy
Schoonover: Portraits of the Mind
And some of the Haynes Manuals: Apollo 11, Space Shuttle, Bird of Prey, USS Enterprise, DeLorean Time Machine
Thanks a lot for help!
Thanks a lot for help!
A new textbook on spaceflight is now available
https://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/Fundamentals_of_Space_Missions_999.html
https://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/Fundamentals_of_Space_Missions_999.html
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