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fucking interesting, love sociology

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>>1265835

conservative butthurt detected

>>1265810 this is more trollface.jpeg. lol

I'm reading Catch-22, so nothing really scientific or hardline fiction-wise. I was reading The Book of the New Sun...the first part, The Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe. Unfortunately someone requested it, and I couldn't hold onto it and finish it in-time. I plan on buying it soon though.

Straumann: General Relativity

Lee Smolin: The Trouble with Physics

>>1265790
I heard for general chemistry, Linus Pauling's book is really good. I have heard it's one of the best, if not the best introductory text there is, albeit it's kind of old.

>>1265793
I have heard a lot of good things about this series.

>>1265888
Never heard of this.

>>1265801
This looks fun. I always thought Archimedes was the man, along with Euclid.

Theodore Frankel: The Geometry of Physics
(Yes, still.)

Now start cooling you stupid helium so I can stop posting ;(

>>1265899
The reason I got that book from the library was because it was recommended as a good book for coordinate-free relativity.
I've always liked the ideas in general relativity, but every single equation there was ugly as fuck. I was hoping to find a modern book that uses index-free notation as much as possible, and this is where I've ended up.

>>1265911
Fair enough. I have not seriously studied much in the way of physics or mathematics in a while--like five years. I always liked going to mathworld.wolfram.com for shits and giggles, but much of it was beyond me. I had a physics professor that tried to instruct me in galois theory and topology once, and that shit was goofy hard, albeit not entirely physics related.

pic related, I've been thumbing through it...it's the most scientific thing I have been reading lately.

Just a little reading before I get my astronomy-book.

Anyone read it ?

you suck, Atheistfags

its must be done :[

>>1265923
BZZZ@!$%&=!!!!
The cover almost made me blind on the right eye, who the fuck designed that

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>>1265934

oh hai ther

>>1265928
I went to a Catholic high school, and I always found it funny that G/god and anything religion-related was never mentioned in any of my science classes including physics, biology, chemistry, and physiology. Not once. In fact, I could probably count on both hands the times religion was actually mentioned outside of theology class.

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>>1265818
I have never studied sociology, and I really do not know any of its major topics. Also, astronomy can be fun; I took an introductory astronomy class in college.

>>1265929
gtfo to >>>/g/

>>1265929
(define godhead (λ() (display "Sussman") (godhead)))

>>1265917
So is this memetics-based or more cultural anthropology or linguistics? I know they can all intersect...just wondering.

>>1265945

Pic is the astronomy book I'll be getting.

It reads, "Practical Astronomy". I'm buying a telescope so I'll need to know a little about that, and there's also many explanations on galaxies, stars, planets, aurora borealis, et cetera.

>>1265988

Pic.

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>>1265988
That's cool. You will learn about red shift, and a bunch of other stuff that I could not remember to save my life lol. I liked astronomy because it made me feel really small and insignificant, as clichéd and stupid as that sounds. Some of the theories out there are really stupid though, from what people have told me, trolling they were or not...I am not sure.

>>1266003

Hah, sounds interesting. Can't wait for the book, really.

But, for now, I'm stuck with this sociology-book, which I really don't find too interesting..

>>1266020
I have tried reading sociology texts (in a very dilettante way) and they never really turned me on, and I have found behavioral sciences to be dreadfully boring, like psychology, bleh. I know someone might be pissed of by that, but oh well...

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>>1265945

if you ever have the opportunity to count a sociology class as a gen ed in college or anything really go for it. a good teacher with a good textbook can change your views on a lot of things.

>>1265786

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I had very little interest in EM, and this book just took away what was left of it.

QM on the other hand is much more interesting.

These!

Any tips on good physics-books for a newbie ?

>>1266112

some tips on some science books i bought for my UG degree.

has anyone spent more. only one of these books was second-hand too!

>>1266127
Also there's a book called "metabolism at a glance" just out of frame.

Full of A3 sized (eukaryotic) metabolic pathways. Really good!

began reading asimov's short stories

>>1266127
also you shouldn't use the Feynman lecture as a primary text. It's more a supplementary one, and good for the high school ---> uni transition IMO.

>>1266127
FUCKING HELL OVER $1000 ???

>>1266127
Can you tell me a bit more about the "Universal Principles of Design" book you own?

>>1266127
What's a good book for fractals, which isn't introductory?

>>1266087
I think I will try that at some point then as an elective hour. I have heard sociology can be fairly easy as well, so if it does not really interest me or if the prof does not live up to expectation/s, at least I can do well, lol.

>>1266132
Nice.

>>1266146
each double page has a different proprty of design...

its like 270 pages long (including - contents and index)

>>1266182
fuck.. wrong photo... well heres the first contents page

here's an example

how the best looking faces are average

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averageness

Another universal design principle

of how the Fibonacci sequence appears in nature etc.

The Biophilia effect

The scaling fallacy

Different types of symmetry

Gettin' my physiology on.

last one. threat detection

i think the spider blended in well, i noticed the frog and butterfly before

the snake was immediately obvious however

bump for more universal design principles

>>1266264
its 25 bucks on amazon. buy it fag

what is a good bio-chem book? Advanced?

i'm planning on reading my ass off after I finish year 12 (inb4 underage b&)
Can't wait actually, gonna read until I get kicked out of the library several times a week, until i get a job ofcourse.

>>1266274

for protein stuff: protein physics (you can download the PDF online)

http://www.amazon.com/Protein-Physics-Lectures-Condensed-Biomaterials/dp/0122567811

I kow there's another really good (really) advanced biochemitry and biophysics book but I can't remember it

for metabolic pathways: either the KEGG database or metabolism at a glance

not sure about like for general stuff your university will suggest one probs.

for cell biology I'd say definitely Alberts et al.

>>1266286
I think the torrent for protein physics is on demonoid.

>>1266286
There's also a torrent for "SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY" by Steed

It's good if you're interested in self assembly nano-science, bio-nano technology

i'm reading maps

anyone got any requests?

>>1266316
>Implying I cannot also go to KEGG and find it myself

>>1266127
so. jelous...

>>1266127
what degree did you do to need such a broad spectrum of textbooks?

>>1266494
Protip: they will sell textbooks to just anyone.

>>1266494
> broad spectrum

LOL

you call that broad? WTF

A scientist I was meant to be ...

Inb4 VB sucks, I know, I needed to know some of it for a project at work.

I wish I was smarte.

highly recommend

inb4 the holy bible

>>1266719
What's your beef with it? It's a decent enough album. You can't really go wrong with track names such as "Of Walking Abortion", "The Intense Humming Of Evil" and "Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart".

am reading this, cue the flame war.

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