@First_Warrior said:
Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein 1959. A controversial classic of military adventure. Quite a good read so far. Much more than the movie.
Heinlein was my favorite SF author when I was young. I've read nearly everything he ever wrote, to include the posthumous "Grumbles from the Grave" published by his wife.
Re: Starship Troopers, the book was SO MUCH better than the movie.
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WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
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Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains may explain how we can learn so quickly.
It appears quanta is way smarter than quora.
Thanks for that link.
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“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Just finished Dark Light by Randy Wayne White and starting Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter.
Google reveals a new Rowhammer attack that exploits the design of ever-shrinking and more dense DRAM chips.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-weird-memory-chip-vulnerability-is-even-worse-than-we-realised/
Finished First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, now reading Kane and Abel.
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
https://aeon.co/essays/real-experts-know-what-they-dont-know-and-we-should-value-it
How is it? I loved The Martian.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Really really good, I highly recommend it so far.
Here's a very interesting look at alcohol consumption in the U.S., historical and present, the trends and the why's. Very interesting.
https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/
Thanks Peter,
Very interesting especially considering my spouse and Patrick seemed to be on 3 day benders. 🙁
Those are called "weekends".
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
I like the old saying "everything in moderation". A little of most things is harmless. The problem humans have is we tend to excess in everything.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Magawa the hero rat retires from job detecting landmines
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57345703
5 reasons drinking whiskey is good for you
https://www.forbes.com/sites/felipeschrieberg/2017/06/30/5-reasons-drinking-whisky-is-healthy-for-you/?sh=4628505b6ed5
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Human birth seasonality: latitudinal gradient and interplay with childhood disease dynamics
The Indispensables by Patrick K. O'Donnell
The dark and bloody river
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman
The Drug That Could Break American Health Care
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/aduhelm-drug-alzheimers-cost-medicare/619169/
Just when you think the FDA can't screw up any more...
Correlative Surface Imaging Reveals Chemical Signatures for Bacterial Hotspots on Plant Roots
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1599140
Hymns of the Republic-The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S.C. Gwynne.
a little light reading about a serious subject;
https://www.lymedisease.org/hardie-tick-family-jeweles/
Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein
Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein 1959. A controversial classic of military adventure. Quite a good read so far. Much more than the movie.
Heinlein was my favorite SF author when I was young. I've read nearly everything he ever wrote, to include the posthumous "Grumbles from the Grave" published by his wife.
Re: Starship Troopers, the book was SO MUCH better than the movie.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-kind-of-information-coding-seen-in-the-human-brain-20210707/
NEUROSCIENCE
Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains may explain how we can learn so quickly.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
It appears quanta is way smarter than quora.
Thanks for that link.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uD9O-l7kQAEFSqi1K8S084pEikQQGCIOEnYN1DBHj8I/edit#gid=1087995951
400 words Shakespeare coined
How Science Lost the Public’s Trust
https://wsj.com/articles/covid-china-media-lab-leak-climate-ridley-biden-censorship-coronavirus-11627049477
https://www.frominsultstorespect.com/2021/07/24/antidepressant-treatment-toxic-flimflam/