Science
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Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman. Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman (ISBN 978-0393355628, W. W. Norton)
I read this book in a Dutch translation a long time ago. And last week, looking for some light reading in the ‘scientific’ section I picked this up from the shelf. I had bought the English edition a few months back as I had given the Dutch translation to my daughter. I figured it was…
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Latex Trial
Block 1 with some text first some after Block 2 with only a formula And a third block with a formula
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Scientific Quote 2
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” ― Fred Hoyle
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Factfulness, Hans Rosling (ISBN 978-1473637498, Hodder & Stoughton)
This book was given to me by an uncle somewhere middle of 2019. As I have no shortage of books in the ‘want to read’ category I put in on the stack and left it there for some time. Then came some science oriented discussions about facts with our kids related to their homework assignments.…
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Swift Playgrounds
A year ago, at the beginning of the first lockdown we started with Swift playgrounds at home on the iPad to teach our 10 year old son Merijn a bit of coding. I had looked at it earlier but then it wasn’t available yet in Dutch. Last year it was and with a lot of…
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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393350845, W. W. Norton)
Another book by David Quammen that is excerpted and adapted from his book Spillover. If you already read Spillover then this book might not bring much new. I read Spillover in 2015 in unsuspecting times and then this basically long chapter from that book on AIDS in the summer of 2020 in the middle of…
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393351552, W. W. Norton)
Elsewhere on this blog I wrote about Spillover by David Quammen. That book covers a number of so called zoonoses, diseases that can be transmitted from non-human animals to humans. Ebola is one example discussed in Spillover. When the book came out late 2012 it was in the middle of a series of Ebola outbreaks.…
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Spillover, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393066807, W.W. Norton & Company)
This book came out in October 2012 and I read it myself in June 2015. The subject of the book is zoonoses, diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans. The book explores recent new diseases that appeared and outbreaks of these diseases. Among the diseases covered in the book are AIDS, ebola and sars.…
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Zwaartekracht en aardkorstgetijden
De meeste mensen weten wel dat de zwaartekracht van de maan eb en vloed veroorzaken. Maar ook de aarde zelf vervormt een klein beetje door dezefde zwaartekracht. Het hoogteverschil van het water tussen eb en vloed kan gaan van enkele meters tot meer dan tien meter. De aardkorst is stijver en dus is de vervorming…
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Bedrade hoofdtelefoons
Het is waarschijnlijk technologische archeologie in de nabije toekomst : de bedrade hoofdtelefoon. Maar als je er een hebt dan zul je vast al gezien hebben dat er zwarte cirkels staan op de metalen plug aan het einde van de draad. Die cirkels isoleren de verschillende metalen delen van de plug. Elk deel fuctioneert als…
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