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René Redzepi and David Zilber
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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
Jordan Ellenberg
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Paul Stamets
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Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
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Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
Robert H. Lustig
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The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild (Elephant Whisperer, 1)
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Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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Conceptual Physics
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How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Michio Kaku
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
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crdrostonDec 30, 2020
The one thing that kind of irks me is this Kaku book “The God Equation.” I have only seen one equation that is so universally applicable that it could deserve that title, and even then I would be hesitant about that because it might give people the wrong impression. (It is the transport equation—it keeps appearing and appearing, a bunch of other equations are special cases of it, it is involved in one of the million-dollar Clay Mathematics prizes so there is clearly something hard/intractable about it, and it has a term which refers to creation and destruction. It says, a box flows downstream, the time rate of change of stuff in the box is equal to the flow J of stuff through the walls of the box plus the rate Φ of stuff being created/destroyed in the fluid. Or, ∂ρ/∂t + (v · ∇) ρ = - ∇ · J + Φ.)