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AMA | August 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Hindlin

Gravity's rainbow is pinchon's most famous book, but he was a little bit less good at the human side of things. The characters are just much more alive and personable and interesting to me in mason and dixon than they were in gravity's rainbow. Shawn herbison: What does a theoretical physicist actually do on a day to day basis to work on physics? i'm assuming it involves at least research and some form of equation crunching. But i'm curious to get a better picture.

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