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Nerdfighteria
Books mentioned in this topic
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (other topics)The Road to Wigan Pier (other topics)
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (other topics)
The People of the Abyss (other topics)
On Liberty (other topics)
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We have unprecedented possibility to change the world around us
Where earlier generations had to fight ignorance, religious doctrines, political ideologies, march off to war, to starve and freeze - we have freedom. The freedom to make this world a more awesome place - and this is an attempt at doing so
We find ourselves in a time, in a society, and in a universe which allows us to share information. The internet allows us to convey the amazingly creative expressions of individual. And for communities of people getting together to create, and to share - through science, art and the caring for other human beings, and for the world around us.
Great writers, scientist, artists and philosophers introduce us to a new dimension of human ingenuity and creativity
We live in a very special time
In a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness
Nerdfighteria is a force for goodness, and this is my contribution
Videos:
We Are Going to Die
The Great Dictator
Pale Blue Dot
The Beauty of Science
The Big Electron
We Stopped Dreaming
The Most Astounding Fact
Pizza and critical reading
Why read
Individuality
The Real You
Books:
Asimov's New Guide To Science
Semmelweis
Moment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript
The Origin of Species
A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing
The Road to Wigan Pier
The People of the Abyss
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
On Writing
Brave New World
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
On Liberty
The Fault in Our Stars
Into the Wild
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Symphony of Science:
A Wave of Reason
Onwards to the Edge
The Quantum World
The Unbroken Thread
On Writing
Storytelling part I
What Makes A Hero
Anti-Hero
Writing Skills
The Art of Metaphors
Storytelling part II
How Fiction can change Reality
Hitchens Advice for Writers
Bukowski
The future of fiction in the information age