herpguy Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 This is a thread where you can post things you want in science. For example, you can give a description of a book you are looking for, and other users should recommend one. Other things you can post here that you want include magazines, videos, websites, chemicals, or anything that has to do with science. Remember: it has to be in science. I was going to suggest this as a much needed new forum, but I think a thread will work just fine. ============================= I'll start. I would like a very complex book on the climate change. It needs very small details, and a lot of them. If anyone knows of a book, or even an article, meeting these requirements please post them here. ============================= Remember to also post your wanteds here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Well I can't help you Herpguy, but if anybody knows of any books on Quantum Gravity - introductory level. I'm not going onto the hard physics with my degree for another year or so (maths comes first unfortunately), so some background reading and resource in the subject would be welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herpguy Posted June 22, 2006 Author Share Posted June 22, 2006 Another thing I would like is the Scientific American article from March 2005 about how humans may have stopped an ice age. It would be very helpful if anyone who has would scan it and post it here. Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudoswallo Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 No luck finding either book/article, but I would also be interested by a text on Quantum Gravity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I sugested something similar to this several months ago, it seriously would be a legal minefield for SFN to implement such a thing, certainly with respect to Chemicals and aparatus etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Lee Smolin has written a good book on quantum gravity;"Three Roads to Quantum Gravity". It is not what I would call a book for the lay-person, but if you have a basic physics background then you will be ok. Although Smolin is best known for his work on loop quantum gravity, he also talks about strings. Reading it wont make you an expert in the subject, but it is the place to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustStuit Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Another thing I would like is the Scientific American article from March 2005 about how humans may have stopped an ice age. It would be very helpful if anyone who has would scan it and post it here. Thanks a lot. Is this the one you're looking for? http://ccr.aos.wisc.edu/News/0305046.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herpguy Posted June 22, 2006 Author Share Posted June 22, 2006 Is this the one you're looking for?http://ccr.aos.wisc.edu/News/0305046.pdf Exactly what I wanted. Thanks a lot, Stu! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokele Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Does it have to be real? If not: I want a high-resolution, high-speed video imaging machine which can simultaneously show me the bones and muscles of an animal *and* when the muscles (or better yet, individual motor units) are active *and* the strain in the muscles/motor units. If it has to be real: a collection of de-vemoned elapid snakes of almost all species. The procedure to do this is very difficult, though it's often done by hack-job idiots without anaethesia (resulting in a 99%+ mortality rate), but if done by a vet, it would allow me safe access to an indisputably monophyletic clade of caenophidian snakes who have a *huge* range of habitats, thus letting me explore the relationships between morphology and performance in great detail. Mokele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Reading it wont make you an expert in the subject, but it is the place to start. That's precisely what I'm looking for, thanks ajb EDIT: Bar the talk on strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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