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K. C. Cole, the Los Angeles Times science writer and columnist, always has a fresh take on cutting-edge scientific... more

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  Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos

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  • Posted:Jul-06-2009

  • Understandable and entertaining
  • K.C. Cole certainly knows how to write. More importantly, she knows how to choose her subjects well. I marveled over each of her 90+ essays and her ability to make mundane objects fascinating...
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  • Posted:Oct-10-2006

  • Science dumbed down
  • "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." When she wrote these pieces, Cole clearly wasn't following Einstein's adage.
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Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One... more

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  Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf

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  • Posted:May-07-2008

  • Is the brain mightier than the swing?
  • "Is the brain mightier than the swing? Proven science makes a great golfer according to Zumerchik who uses physics, gravity and universal principles to torment himself and other hackers about...
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  • Posted:Apr-16-2008

  • Dissapointing
  • Watch out! The front cover is misleading. There are no such diagrams or formulas inside the book. Just words, words, like a novel. It makes me fall asleep.
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  • Posted:Apr-16-2005

  • Great book, bad title
  • This is a truely engaging book on the technical aspects of golf. Technical, that is, outside of swing mechanics. Too many people get caught up in what makes for a good swing according to this...
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Chasing Hubble?s Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the... more

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  Chasing Hubble's Shadows: The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time

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  • Posted:Feb-06-2008

  • A lively dialogue
  • Readers interested in Hubble's promise and achievements will be fascinated to learn more about telescope searches in CHASING HUBBLE'S SHADOWS: THE SEARCH FOR GALAXIES AT THE EDGE OF TIME. History...
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  • Posted:Dec-27-2006

  • Good, but not for everyone
  • I am going to have to dissent with some of the previous reviews. I think there is a definite audience for this book, but I cannot wholeheartedly recommend it to just anyone interested in popular...
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In Beyond 9 to 5, Sarah Norgate investigates the psychological, social, and cultural influences that affect the way... more

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  Beyond 9 to 5: Your Life in Time (Maps of the Mind)

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  • Posted:Jan-25-2009

  • stretch the mind
  • This book looks at time from angles and perspectives that really challenge the mind. The author is British and some words reflect differences in cultures with Americans. She also documents topics...
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  • Posted:Apr-13-2008

  • Informative
  • What I like about this book is that it brings in material that many introductory books on the social and psychological features of time leave out. In addition to the usual M-time, P-time, clock...
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In the tradition of Rachel Carson and Eric Schlosser, the veteran journalist Jeff Goodell examines the danger behind... more

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  Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future

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  • Posted:Apr-13-2009

  • facing our problems
  • I like authors who think long and hard about real situations and attempt to examine every angle. Two points that really struck me in BIG COAL were the end of an ice age and the situation of China...
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  • Posted:Aug-15-2007

  • Another journalist in over his head
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    In the past three years, journlists have been churning out books on energy, which supposedly serve as a bridge between energy scientists and the layman. But these smart journlists do not...
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  • Posted:Jun-19-2006

  • Somewhat Interesting
  • Goodell spent three years writing "Big Coal," and it includes some interesting material. However, it also contains a fair amount of quite predictable and less impactful material as well, and while...
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The space vehicle spectaculars of recent years have been revealing the full scope and beauty of our own solar system... more

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Einstein's essay, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, introduces his famous "principle of relativity," one of... more

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This book is about origins: the origin of the universe, matter stars and planets systems, and finally, the origin of... more

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  The Origins of Life and the Universe

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  • Posted:Dec-21-2004

  • An excellent text for non-science majors
  • Is it practical to study the origin of the universe and of life? I wish it were, so that I could offer an attractive class with a course description something like:
    
    ... Experimental...
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