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   Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 21:48:58 JST Robert McNees

   Science friends! If you were stocking the science section of a book store, what popular (as opposed to academic) titles would you put on the shelves? What books, in your opinion, are absolute essentials?

   (To keep things manageable, let's say from the last ten years.)

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 21:48:58 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @mcnees

     Feynman lectures are the first one that comes to mind.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 23:14:14 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     I think feynmen;'s lectures are much more digestable than they sound... but ill give you its not quite your every day popular science sort of publication.

     What about the Startalk book? I hear good things about it!

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     Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 23:14:15 JST Robert McNees

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo great resource, recommend it to students a lot, but here I’m looking for popular science for the lay reader.