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Old 09-23-2016, 10:15 AM
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Recently wrapped up The Boys in the Boat - outstanding. Reading "The Power of Habit" now by Charles Duhigg. Seems like a really good book for someone like me who is unorganized and has no regular routines.

I've lost the book twice already - no joke. I'm hoping one of the final chapters has some ideas on not losing things. Maybe I need to do the e-book and put it on my phone.

My wife got me his newer book, Smarter Faster Better but I'm afraid to take it on any of my business trips, as I'll surely leave it behind for a maid who will read it and end up owning her own hotel empire.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson- Space Chronicles

I can't stand to read fiction.
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Been reading a few of Brandon Sanderson's books, so I just picked up his first, Elantris...

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson- Space Chronicles

I can't stand to read fiction.


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Hello. My Sunday is free for the day. Earlier in the week I have been rearranging boxes of stored items in the attic and came across several "old friends" of reading material from days long ago. I decided today that I would take a break as well as reread some of the books that I found. I will start with a fun little fictional star craft encyclopedia by author Stewart Cowley titled "Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD, and follow up with a short SF novel by Poul Anderson titled "The Corridors of Time." Interestingly, the cover art for the Poul Anderson book reveals one of the featured spacecraft in Stewart Cowley encyclopedia.

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Hello. My Sunday is free for the day. Earlier in the week I have been rearranging boxes of stored items in the attic and came across several "old friends" of reading material from days long ago. I decided today that I would take a break as well as reread some of the books that I found. I will start with a fun little fictional star craft encyclopedia by author Stewart Cowley titled "Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD, and follow up with a short SF novel by Poul Anderson titled "The Corridors of Time." Interestingly, the cover art for the Poul Anderson book reveals one of the featured spacecraft in Stewart Cowley encyclopedia.



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OMG. I had that spacecraft book as a kid. I must have spent hours and hours pouring through that book and drawing the ships in it in my own sketchbook. That's a great blast from the past!
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After seeing this lecture by Lawrence Krauss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

which was the absolute BEST hour spent watching TV in years,

I read Lawrence Krauss' book, A Universe from Nothing: Why there is something rather than nothing.

The universe is flat, it is expanding at an accelerating rate and in 100 Billion years, there will be no evidence of the big bang and the people living here will think the Milky Way is the entirety of the universe. With their technology of the future, their knowledge about the universe will be WRONG.

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