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What are you talking about? I read the Blank Slate years ago. Pinker opposes tabula rasa in that book."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi -
Actually, thinking about Reamde...
KH, did you ever read Anathem? It seems like it'd be directly up your alley."My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
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He's expanding on what he wrote in Blank SlateOriginally posted by DinoDoc View PostLet us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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The paradox of Tar Heel politics : the personalities, elections, and events that shaped modern North Carolina
Words and rules : the ingredients of language
Ordinary geniuses : Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the origins of genomics and big bang cosmology
A call to arms : book one of the damned
Evolution : a very short introduction
Matter : a Culture novel
Nature via nurture : genes, experience, and what makes us human
The haves and the have-nots : a brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality
Mapping human history : genes, race, and our common origins
Pandora's star
Future babble : why expert predictions are next to worthless, and you can do better
In pursuit of the gene : from Darwin to DNA
Mathematics : a very short introduction
Risk : a very short introduction
Logic : a very short introduction
Acacia : a novel
Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas
Intelligence : a very short introduction
Genius : a very short introduction
Inversions
The hundred thousand kingdoms
Numbers : a very short introduction
The Celts : a very short introduction
Excession
Dark light
Carnage and culture : landmark battles in the rise of Western power
Cosmonaut keep
The ghosts of Cannae : Hannibal and the darkest hour of the Roman republic
The geography of thought : how Asians and Westerners think differently-- and why
A dance with dragons
A feast for crows.
A storm of swords.
Calculated risks : how to know when numbers deceive you
A clash of kings.
A clash of kings.
The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable
Struck by lightning : the curious world of probabilities
A fire upon the deep
Singularity sky
The myth of the rational market : a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street
The most powerful idea in the world : a story of steam, industry, and invention
A game of thrones
The sky road
Bad science : quacks, hacks, and big pharma flacks
The big short : inside the Doomsday Machine
The stars my destination
Those are books I read from the library. I also read a few on my Ipad.Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. -HomerComment
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In that order?Originally posted by flash9286 View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Yes, in 2010Originally posted by Guynemer View Post12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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No, books lower on the list were read earlier.Originally posted by Lorizael View PostKids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. -HomerComment
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I didn't keep track of all of them, but my favorite was Death By Black Hole<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures
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I honestly didn't make a list but I figure I read or reread around 20 books in 2011. I read the Millennium series for the first time, the Ice & Fire series for the first time, a book about the origin of the Taliban, that biography of Steve Jobs, reread Collapse by Jerad Diamond, I read Lost in Shanga-La (a great book about a US pilot shot down in WW2), and others but I can't really remember them right now though.Last edited by Dinner; January 2, 2012, 15:01.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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DinoDoc has no idea what he's talking about, clearly. Just because the book was called "Blank Slate" doesn't mean he was positing such a position. Quite the opposite.Originally posted by Nostromo View Post
Is it bad that I didn't read any books in 2011? I read forums..."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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Same as KH, I rarely read books outside of a Kindle edition anymore (exceptions being gifts or the Bible, for which I prefer a physical version).
The Imperfectionists: A Novel - Tom Rachman
Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices - Brian D. McLaren
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God - John Piper
A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith - Brian D. McLaren
A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story - Diana Butler Bass
The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One - Patrick Rothfuss
One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow - Scot McKnight
Caesar: Life of a Colossus - Adam Goldsworthy (I got through half of this before I got bored - will pick it up again later)
A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five - George R.R. Martin
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel - Aimee Bender
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical - Shane Claibourne
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith - Rob Bell
Sex God - Rob Bell
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth - Gordon D. Fee & Douglas Stuart
Was America Founded As a Christian Nation? - John Fea
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement - Tony Jones
What's So Amazing About Grace? - Phillip Yancey
The Powers That Be - Walter Wink
19 Kindle Books, most dealing with Christianity
Also been making my way through "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years" by Diarmaid MacCulloch“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Jesus... literally.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View Post"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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Imran went down to Georgia and went native"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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Psst... I'm sure there is a church or two in Philly.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Of the 12 non-sf books only 5 were finance. The rest were more broadly econ (with a large historical component to many of the econ and finance books).Originally posted by onodera View Post12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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