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Are there any pop-sci books worth reading?
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Brandon Garcia
Jose Sanders
The Quantum Enigma
I'd classify it as pop-sci, but it is of the highest level. There is no bullshit, analogies are incredibly accurate to the actual theory, but the analogous stories are within reach of anyone with a high school education.
Andrew Harris
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Tyler Jones
I don't know if it is pop-sci, but Jurassic Park's book is pretty amazing, it does concentrate on the science parts way more than the film.
Nolan James
b u l l s h i t
Juan Gray
A Brief History Of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari is pretty good, particularly it's bit on early human civilization (read: prior to the development of agriculture). It's not well cited, so I chose to replace it with a paleoanthropology textbook, but it's pretty interesting if you want to learn about the fall of humanity.
If you want a pop-sci book that'll actually give you some more utility than an existential crisis, then I might recommend Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Blake Long
Elaborate
Julian Morgan
Any for which you have a genuine interest in the subject area.
Nicholas Garcia
I liked everything by Michio Kaku, especially "Physics of the Impossible"
Nathaniel Evans
Anything by Roger Penrose or Feynman is pretty good, they aren't textbooks but they will go into the details more than most pop sci books (Feynman lectures are just that, lectures). Susskind's books ain't bad for an amateur. More than books I would suggest reading articles written by people who know what they are talking about yet aimed at a general audience, quanta magazine, nature, science, and (sometimes) nautilus are good for this sort of thing. Kolmogorov math it's content and meaning is great.
Justin Cruz
The Road to Reality
Oliver Russell
Feynman's lectures aren't pop-sci... they're mechanics lectures intended for the advanced physic's student. Have you even read what you're recommending? Lol
Oliver Davis
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Elijah Adams
This, and Machinery of Life by David Goodsell. The latter is great for starting cellular biologists for building an intuition about how dynamic microscopic things can be and how crowded the cell is.
Carter Long
>they aren't textbooks but they will go into the details more than most pop sci books (Feynman lectures are just that, lectures)
I didn't call them pop-sci books, I specifically called them lectures, did you even read the post?
>they're mechanics lectures intended for the advanced physic's student
You...haven't actually read the Feynman lectures, have you? Mechanics is one part, there's em, thermo, wave phenomenon, and qm, not just mechanics, they're also freshman/sophomore level texts, not "advanced physics student", hell high schoolers read the Feynman lectures with not much issue
Jaxon Adams
Bentley Barnes
>If you want a pop-sci book that'll actually give you some more utility than an existential crisis
Why would that book give me an existential crisis?
Jack Hernandez
>t. brainlet
Julian Hughes
>Why would that book give me an existential crisis?
It sets you on the path of realizing that agriculture was a net loss for humanity, and that you'll only ever be able to live in a caricature of the environment you were adapted to live in.
Thomas Brown
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Isaiah Gomez
Yudkowsky is a literal crank and you would do well not to financially support him.
William Butler
You can get the book for free, and regardless of what you think about the author, the content of the book is pretty good (so far as I've read).
Noah Gonzalez
>A Brief History Of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari is pretty good, particularly it's bit on early human civilization (read: prior to the development of agriculture)
It's a terrible book of ideology shilling. It is literally just random, unfounded opinions paraded as factual.
No, all pop-sci books are shit.
Lucas Taylor
While not pop-sci, or easy to understand, it is intellectually rich and written for a general audience.
Incomplete Nature: How mind emerged from matter.
Terence Deacon
Liam Martin
Richard dawkins and Lawrence Krauss are good places to start
Jaxon Rivera
Bill Bryson's A Brief History of Everything is as pop as you can get, buts its a good read.
Dominic Bennett
Bullshit
Have fun starving to death and get btfo by wild animals you idiot
Jordan Walker
Would someone care to explain what this one is about? Why is it so great?
Jaxon Gray
No
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Jordan Martin
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Jayden Walker
>he doesn't respond with an argument
What did he mean by this?
Dylan Fisher
>you need an argument to counter a non argument
lol
Joseph Peterson
No, they will probably give you a wrong notion of a scientific concept and enchance your Dunning-Kruger effect, and then we will laugh at you when you spout stupid opinions.
Lectures on Physics by Feynman is the only "pop-sci" book I'd recommend
Jordan Thompson
t. brainlet
Isaac Thompson
>Dunning-Kruger effect
You're going through it right now.