hey nice video. May recommend Lynn Margulis or James lovelock to you, their Gaia theory is very unique and interesting and probably different from things you have read before.
I read OOS the first time when I was not much older than you. Bored me to tears and I missed a lot. Reading it years later, I'm staggered at how much I missed previously, including that it's very much an intellectual adventure book.
I recomment "God is not Great - How Religion poisons everything" (Christopher Hitchens) for being alot more honestly about religion than anything I have read yet.
I've read the God Delusion - and i thought it was great.Did you know he's sold nearly one and a quarter of a million copies!, and has had over 700 hundred reviews on Amazon.
Good to hear that not all Americans are deluded bible bashers.
Bill Bryson is the best!, read his latest book, The life and times of the thunderbolt kid, great.
How I wish I had your interest in science when I was in high school. The fever didn't hit me till my late 20s after reading some Sagan, Dawkins, E.O. Wilson. I'll check out Gould next, thanks to you.
Very cool list, thanks for sharing! Have you ever read Richard Dawkins' book, "The Ancestor's Tale"? Fairly recent, and one of my very favorite books on evolution. It takes you back in time, stopping on the way to meet our common ancestors with other species and learn various facets of evolution. Really eye-opening and entertaining.
I've only read The God Delusion and the Selfish Gene. I've got The Blind Watchmaker on my list, and I'll be sure to add that one too. Thanks for the suggestion =]
I'm embarrassed to admit that I've never read one of his books. I always meant to, but I often find those kinds of books tedious and never put it at the top of my list... I'm young; there's time.
It is likely, that sometimes I am overly impressed by the form and the terse language of the book rather than the overall subject matter. Probably my comments indicated my own biases. So the embarrassment is mine, NOT yours. But I do think, S J Gould and Carl Sagan -without any notable exception, were two most prolific and engaged science writers of present times. Oddly enough, I still need to read more of Gould.
When I'm reading Gould it's like I can't wait to hear what he'll say next. He's so intelligent and innovative.
I've never read Ledermann, but I don't think I would like him much because I generally find physics extremely uninteresting. I've read A Brief History of Time, and I didn't find it terrible, but it wouldn't be my first pick.
When I was younger, I thought that physics is boring. They are dealing with small cars, light and other uninteresting things. But biology was so wondeful and interesting. Thousands and thousands of colors. And I started to learn biochemistry and chemistry. At the and of the high school, I realized, that if I want to understand Nature, I have to learn math and physics. But I was shy. I went to medical school. After two years I couldn't continue my studies on medical stuff.
So I've changed university. Now I'm learning math and physics. I'm writing my Msc thesis on general relativity. :))))
Theres is a famous hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. You can find it on wikipedia. He is a Nobel prize winner. He started his researches on anatomy and hisology.After this, he turned to phisiology, but he said, that phisiology is so difficult, he have to learn and research biochemistry to understand life. He was a very effective biochemist!
This is a great list. I'll have to check my local library and see if I can find these books. If you haven't read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking I would recommend it. The God Particle by Leon Lederman is pretty good, too. Hawking's deals with cosmology and Lederman's deals with quantum physics.
This is a brilliant list. I was not scientifically trained much beyond age 15: and these books will really help me to get to grips with what I need to know, instead of theistic fantasies!
Wow,heavy list. I'm not a big reader--so would you go back and make a video recap of each book-really--maybe not all of them. And play your violin in the back round. What kind of violin do you have--a Strata-variously?
i'm reading microbe hunters :D
KatherineAraya1 1 year ago
@KatherineAraya1 yay! enjoy it, it's very fascinating to see how scientists thought in the past.
blackcat355 1 year ago
19th century books are solid to read. I've got a few from that time period and havn't managed to finish any of them.
I got halfway through 'Origin' and halfway through 'Dracula' and they were both very interesting, just too hard going.
TheProf1988 3 years ago
hey nice video. May recommend Lynn Margulis or James lovelock to you, their Gaia theory is very unique and interesting and probably different from things you have read before.
cheers
zomgzorzzzz 3 years ago
I've heard of the theory before, but have never read anything about it. Looks very interesting. I'll look into it.
Thanks for the suggestions.
blackcat355 3 years ago
Cool video! I just finished A Short History of Nearly Everything. The World Without us sounds interesting, I think I'll check that one out next.
m4tthewk 3 years ago
I read OOS the first time when I was not much older than you. Bored me to tears and I missed a lot. Reading it years later, I'm staggered at how much I missed previously, including that it's very much an intellectual adventure book.
TheFallibleFiend 3 years ago
Work on saying "um" less. Otherwise very good books good to see a young lady interested in science.
stratelite 3 years ago
I recomment "God is not Great - How Religion poisons everything" (Christopher Hitchens) for being alot more honestly about religion than anything I have read yet.
l0rdcompaQ 3 years ago
That video shattered my hatred against woman.
I am confused :( .
l0rdcompaQ 3 years ago
lol Thanks?
I have not yet read God is not Great, but it is already on my list =)
blackcat355 3 years ago
I've read the God Delusion - and i thought it was great.Did you know he's sold nearly one and a quarter of a million copies!, and has had over 700 hundred reviews on Amazon.
Good to hear that not all Americans are deluded bible bashers.
Bill Bryson is the best!, read his latest book, The life and times of the thunderbolt kid, great.
saunallezellite 4 years ago
How I wish I had your interest in science when I was in high school. The fever didn't hit me till my late 20s after reading some Sagan, Dawkins, E.O. Wilson. I'll check out Gould next, thanks to you.
mejirodude 4 years ago
Very cool list, thanks for sharing! Have you ever read Richard Dawkins' book, "The Ancestor's Tale"? Fairly recent, and one of my very favorite books on evolution. It takes you back in time, stopping on the way to meet our common ancestors with other species and learn various facets of evolution. Really eye-opening and entertaining.
joelabass 4 years ago
I've only read The God Delusion and the Selfish Gene. I've got The Blind Watchmaker on my list, and I'll be sure to add that one too. Thanks for the suggestion =]
blackcat355 4 years ago
A good list. A couple of Carl Sagan's books too should have been included. My personal favorite: In the shadow of ancestors ...
gitu1 4 years ago
I'm embarrassed to admit that I've never read one of his books. I always meant to, but I often find those kinds of books tedious and never put it at the top of my list... I'm young; there's time.
blackcat355 4 years ago
It is likely, that sometimes I am overly impressed by the form and the terse language of the book rather than the overall subject matter. Probably my comments indicated my own biases. So the embarrassment is mine, NOT yours. But I do think, S J Gould and Carl Sagan -without any notable exception, were two most prolific and engaged science writers of present times. Oddly enough, I still need to read more of Gould.
gitu1 4 years ago
Stephen Jay Gould is one of mí favourite. He was a great man.
The Origin of species.....One of the greatest book, ever created by mankind. Darwin is a genius, like Einstein, Gauss, or von Neumann.
But I don't think that Ledermann's or Hawking's books are as good as they are said to be good.
anonimliberal 4 years ago
When I'm reading Gould it's like I can't wait to hear what he'll say next. He's so intelligent and innovative.
I've never read Ledermann, but I don't think I would like him much because I generally find physics extremely uninteresting. I've read A Brief History of Time, and I didn't find it terrible, but it wouldn't be my first pick.
blackcat355 4 years ago
Thanks for favoriting this, by the way =]
blackcat355 4 years ago
When I was younger, I thought that physics is boring. They are dealing with small cars, light and other uninteresting things. But biology was so wondeful and interesting. Thousands and thousands of colors. And I started to learn biochemistry and chemistry. At the and of the high school, I realized, that if I want to understand Nature, I have to learn math and physics. But I was shy. I went to medical school. After two years I couldn't continue my studies on medical stuff.
anonimliberal 4 years ago
So I've changed university. Now I'm learning math and physics. I'm writing my Msc thesis on general relativity. :))))
Theres is a famous hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. You can find it on wikipedia. He is a Nobel prize winner. He started his researches on anatomy and hisology.After this, he turned to phisiology, but he said, that phisiology is so difficult, he have to learn and research biochemistry to understand life. He was a very effective biochemist!
anonimliberal 4 years ago
But it wasn't enough for him. He realized, that he has to learn quantum physics....
One of his greatest book: The living state.
Sorry for my mistakes in my writing. My english is not the best.
anonimliberal 4 years ago
This is a great list. I'll have to check my local library and see if I can find these books. If you haven't read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking I would recommend it. The God Particle by Leon Lederman is pretty good, too. Hawking's deals with cosmology and Lederman's deals with quantum physics.
HaleyMary 4 years ago
lol Your channel says you're 31 >.>
blackcat355 4 years ago
Thanks, I guess, though it's kind of creepy because you're 25 years older than I am...
blackcat355 4 years ago
This is a brilliant list. I was not scientifically trained much beyond age 15: and these books will really help me to get to grips with what I need to know, instead of theistic fantasies!
tenneral 4 years ago
What do yo think the best Physics book for a layman is?
DavidRandallCurtis 4 years ago
I'm not a big physics reader, but the best one's I've read are The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene and A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
blackcat355 4 years ago
Wow,heavy list. I'm not a big reader--so would you go back and make a video recap of each book-really--maybe not all of them. And play your violin in the back round. What kind of violin do you have--a Strata-variously?
NEWSTOGOD 4 years ago
Haha No, I don't have a Stradivarius, primarily because I don't happen to have several million dollars lying around.
Mine's a modern imitation.
blackcat355 4 years ago