Top Hacker News Book Recommendations in Science & Math (all time)

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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Avi Loeb

4.5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

Arthur Firstenberg

4.8 on Amazon

5 HN comments

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell

4.2 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Turn Left At Orion: Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope - and How to Find Them (Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope – and How to Find Them)

Guy Consolmagno

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Paul Stamets

4.8 on Amazon

5 HN comments

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Annie Duke and Penguin Audio

4.4 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight

Valter Longo

4.4 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight

Satchin Panda PhD

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

John McWhorter

4.5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

David Spiegelhalter

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

4.5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)

William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer and Tantor Audio

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Ants: Workers of the World

Eleanor Spicer Rice and Eduard Florin Niga

3.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

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tcbawoonAug 15, 2021

I watched the Netflix movie adaptation "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" with my children. It's a very inspiring story, and in some ways humbling to see someone needing to fight every step of the way for education, a better life, and survival.

chrisweeklyonAug 20, 2019

Reminds me of "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind". Amazing true story. Book is recommended.

andrewguentheronFeb 22, 2013

Makes me think of "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind." A very cool book, I would highly recommend it.

cr0shonMay 4, 2019

To me, the story reminds me of "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" (William Kamkwamba):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kamkwamba

Here's to Hope's similar advancement as he grows, studies, and learns.

mattrponJuly 10, 2019

We've used Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons with 4 of our 5 children (the 5th is 2 years old). Starting at 3, they generally completed the book by 4-4.5, one took until he was 5. After they finish the book, the authors have a list of recommended books for the kids to read next. It's a good list, but one other source we added were travel brochures. Anytime we stopped somewhere on a family trip, we'd load up on all the brochures of things to do in the area. My 9 year old is the oldest of the group, she's completed the Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, and the Little House Series each multiple times. Our 8 year old just finished reading the "Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" and just asked me for 100 feet of copper wire....our 6 year old wants to go to Round Rock, TX - his favorite brochure and our 3 year old is on lesson 40... if it were just one kid, I'd say it was just luck. But the book really works. And each lesson takes between 10-15 minutes. If you figure over the course of a year, you're spending roughly 25-40 hours on developing an independent reader, it's a no-brainer.

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