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vescheonApr 2, 2019

LIDAR is really cool. The coolest use I know of is that a man named Steve Elkins used it in Honduras to discover lost ancient archaeological sites a few years ago. If you're interested read The Lost City of the Monkey God, it will blow your hair back.

billbrownonDec 19, 2017

Here's quite a few, but they might be of interest to others.

1. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: great advice that I had never seen anywhere else (except his video that started the whole thing).

2. The Vital Question: good overview of origin of life research.

3. Fragment: hard science fiction (is that the term?) that delved into evolution and dovetailed with some of the reading I had been doing around that subject.

4. The Science of Navigation: delved into the wonder of current navigational technology and how we got to here.

5. The Lost City of the Monkey God: bought on a lark, made me realize that archaeology can still find new things nowadays.

6. Island of the Lost: historical account of two shipwrecks on the same island at the same time that knew nothing of each other.

7. Protecting the Gift: another eye-opener about being more aware of the ways people _can_ prey on children.

8. Wondrous Contrivances: how people reacted to new techologies in the past.

9. Rig Ship for Ultra Quiet: submariner's account of life during a Cold War operation.

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