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The author Sir Salman Rushdie 75 has been attacked on stage at a literary festival being held in The Chautauqua Institution in New York USA https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62524833 He is reported to have been stabbed in the neck by an attacker who rushed the stage. Rushdie was subsequently airlifted to hospital in a helicopter, and the attacker was taken into custody immediately by the police. Sir Salman Rushdie has been living under the threat of a fatwa calling for his death pronounced by the late Iranian cleric Ayatollah Khomeinei in 1989 in response to Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses (1988).

Something that doesn't make sense to me is the size of textbooks and technical books. If you look at technical books from the mid-1900s, they were human friendly sizes. For example, the 2nd edition of University Physics by Sears & Zemansky which was published in the 1950s is split into 2 volumes and it's lighter and smaller than the modern editions. (However, the content remains mostly the same.) Unlike it's modern version, it was clearly meant to be held by a human. Any speculations on why this trend occurred?

Have there been any good novels based on people's experience when they are woken up in the future after being frozen in one of the Freezer banks in the 21st century? Imagine the (horrifying") setting It is 2420 and they have reached a cure for the disease that prompted you to go down this route in 2020. Gradually they wake you up from the coma ,all the while treating your illness and then you are awake. What would be the first thing you would see? Would your new doctors bear any resemblance to the last people you saw before going under? What would be their attitude to you? A guinea pig ? A freak show? …

Hey guys A few days ago, I have been chatting with an old friend of mine who told me, that he has written a novel… he just finished it and now he is wondering, how his book should get published. I am really green to this, therefore I didn’t know what to say and couldn’t tell him, what he has to do now. He is looking for the most convenient arrangement and has already asked some mates for advices… they suggested, that he should choose between self-publishing or a publisher. He has done some research on the topic but is still timid. The main problem is, that self-publishing sounds rather expensive and risky, but finding a publishing house (or an agent?) is a…

Anyone else read this book? Vernor Vinge does a great job making you believe in an apocalypse brought about by a private contractor working for Livermore Labs. A great read, I'll discuss his premise if anyone is interested.

In general, my son is in the stage of teenage protest. And in general I am not at war with him. But I presented this rebellion as something petty in type, rock music and so on. But he went further, and said that he wanted to read the very abnormal literature that he would find. He has already read "Mein Kampf" and he has read "Naked Lunch". I started reading Carlos Castaneda and is now interested in Selenger. And in general, I do not fit into his desire yet. But then he wants to read the Beatnik Bible, and that worries me. I don’t want all of this to have any negative effect on him.

Hello Everyone, Is there anyone here reading X-Risk and, if so, would you like to discuss it over Discord or Zoom or DMs sometime? Later I will include some of my favorite quotes or pieces of information that I liked about it in this thread and maybe some of you will enjoy them too. X-Risk: https://www.amazon.com/X-Risk-How-Humanity-Discovered-Extinction/dp/1913029840/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=X-Risk&qid=1608068155&sr=8-1

Everyone should read this book. Until you've read it, don't talk about logic. You don't know what you're talking about.

Hey guys I am really shy so please be nice, I don't usually go on forums but I just love science and want to share my book which I write my ideas and story and philosophy's. In my book equilibrium I will be sharing my ideas and thoughts and prototypes. url deleted I will be making the book free from the 19/05/2020 to 23/05/2020 I hope you all enjoy it, God bless

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard. Happy to share our latest motivational video about life and its understanding. Watch it here: url deleted

Hi there, The One and Only Book = The Origin of your Coordinate system of Life For me it is Games People Play/What Do You Say After You Say Hello!! Eric Berne (1910 –1970), a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior. He gives clear and simple definitions. They work for me. And I like his logic. What book would be The Origin of your Coordinate system of Life?

Which books have you both read and recommend?

Hey guys..... In some recent conversations here, I made an offhand remark about how I thought a classic well-known novel mentioned in a post was hugely Overrated. Just my two cents, of course. But it started a bit of an exchange on the topic of Overrated books. I've always found this subject to be hugely entertaining and providing for some spirited discussions in the past. So how about it? What allegedly classic Novels do you feel got way too much kudos or acclaim? What Novels come to mind for you when you hear the term Overrated? Allow me to throw in first...... The Great Gatsby.....F Scott Fitzgerald 100 Years of Solitude.... Gabriel Marq…

Hello, friends at scienceforums. I am the author of a fantasy novel, illustrated as a book from the Middle Ages. Every page of its 400 pages has been fully decorated. It's a combination of a fantastic adventure and popular science. I wrote it many years ago thinking of an audience such as this one. I recently finished the ebook version of it. it proved impossible to replicate the illustrated novel in its entirety into an eBook format. The ebook version comes with just the necessary images to understand the plot and the discussions throughout the story. I am writing to you all because I would like to share this eBook to all the members of this forum. I am asking you to…

Hello, i am searching for a scientific divulgative book about gravity, any advice ? P.S. Did any of you read :"Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of the Universe"-J.Baggot ?

I have just finished reading the final book in this series. I read the rest several years back and just got the final book although it came out a year ago. Anyone else read this or even heard of it? It is The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and Harry Potter rolled into one total epic. It is full of fantasy troupes and clichés... but done so very, very well. The character developments are superb, the top main 4 or 5 characters getting more words on the page throughout the series regarding the character development than the whole of the Harry Potter, TLOTRs and A song of Ice and Fire entire novels put together. IMO - the first book did go on a little bit…

Red-pill me on him.

I have been reading this library book, apart from the 4 pages removed by some previous reader. A Map of the Invisible by Professor Jon Butterworth, University of London. This little book should be read by all those coming here to propose new grand theories of anything. Jon takes the reader through all the important aspects of modern Physics - Quantum theory, Special Relativity, General Relativity, Standard Model and beyond. But he does it in such a way as to bring out the important Physics of the material. The insights offered are stunningly crystal clear, as are the chains of reasoning behind the mathematics. Yes, Mathematics is mentioned inclu…

This book is great; however, I suspect the lack of scientific evidence and reasoning for each debunked myth. But that is my opinion, and it is a good book to pass the time. I recommend you guys to read it. The following is a quote from the introductory. Many of us leap to the conclusion that because A precedes B, then A must cause B. But many events that occur before other events don’t cause them. For example, the fact that virtually all serial killers ate cereal as children doesn’t mean that eating cereal produces serial killers (or even “cereal killers”—we couldn’t resist the pun) in adulthood.

For you bibliophiles familiar with the works of one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century, I found this very illuminating The School of Life video on the life and time of George Orwell. The video discusses the seminal quality of Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, which contain several prescient parallels to our society and current political environment. I recall his works being required reading from high school thru college.

I just saw a 15 minute interview with the author which made me order the book, how much of the book is factual and accurate and how much is political game play? I'd like to hear opinions from people who read it and/or have some deeper insight. During the interview, the author stated unbelievably controversial things like: Trump doesn't read, he watches talk shows though so WH staff lobbies to invite people to the talk shows to influence him...Trump doesn't read anything which is handed to him, he immediately sets aside any notes or piece of paper that is given to him without looking at it. Link to the book on amazon: Commercial links not allowed, removed by moderator …

Hi, I just wanted to share a book with you on Quantum Theory and Alien Conspiracy. Here are the notes on Internet Archive: (Free Version is posted there) Mental Potentials Create Many Realities or Many Worlds is a book written by Kevin Luckerson, which contains compiled research in quatum theory and relativity physics -- and suggests that the universe may actually exist as a light hologram. (The book, Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot, proposed this same idea, suggesting that the universe is never completely established ... until the observer interacts with it or engages with it.) The research strongly suggests that the universe exists in this way so t…

Trying to find out if there is any specific organizational scheme used for the numbers after the first three in the Dewey Decimal System.

What books on electrical engineering go into depth on technique as well as theory? I was reading the electrical chapters of a highschool-level automechanics textbook only to find the descriptions shallow and confusing. The book's explanation of semiconductors was appallingly incomplete, and then my chemistry textbook filled the gap on band theory and doping. Unfortunately the chemistry textbook barely mentions diodes. I need an electrician's guide that assumes that I want to know the theory too and already do to an extent. Along those same lines, the book should be broadly applicable. Many of these books focus on household projects, but I will be doing automotive ele…

i go through the content of this book. i wanna buy it. how do you think ? anyone read it ?