(Part 3) Best professional & academic biographies according to redditors
We found 4,286 Reddit comments discussing the best professional & academic biographies. We ranked the 1,221 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
The title makes him seem like a bad kid. He was a genius who was able to fashion an incredibly sophisticated device without any help at all. He would pose as a teacher and get elements from agencies and then use household products for the rest. He would have been able to make a full nuclear reactor if he wasn't pulled over with the thing in the back of his car. He didn't think that the radiation would affect him that much and especially not any of his neighbors. The book about him is fascinating.
i just finished reading about the highly successful Privateer, Admiral / Captain Morgan, what a GREAT read
Turing was very well-liked. If you're referencing the Imitation Game - that movie was ridiculously inaccurate. I don't understand Hollywood's need to cast every "smart person" as a tortured Sheldon Cooper clone.
Sources:
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/19/poor-imitation-alan-turing/
http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Inspired-Imitation/dp/069116472X
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/03/the_imitation_game_fact_vs_fiction_how_true_the_new_movie_is_to_alan_turing.html
There is a book about this very topic.
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch.
Not a website, but this book is pretty much exactly what you describe: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter. Any chance you're thinking of a book instead?
Read the book 'Apache' by Ed Macy for real life stories of these kind of missions
There's a book comparing what items are worth making yourself and the name itself backs you up: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
I bought that book for my mom to read to her first grade students, and the girls love it! There's also this one that's a bit similar but focuses on women in science, and I believe they published one about women athletes this year.
What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison?
God doesn't think he is Larry Ellison.
https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768
I read Car Guys vs. Bean Counters, which is a surprisingly informative rant about that episode in history.
Lutz chalks it up to:
A good anecdote on the last subject is the paint on GM cars. GM had switched to a more matte finish, because it hid small bumps and imperfections. This improved metrics for paint job defects, but made the cars less attractive overall, and thus reduced sales.
There's a book that I found to be an interesting read called "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter".
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Bread-Buy-Butter-Shouldnt/dp/1451605889
Basically the same types of insights as in this thread.
You should read the book. It is amazing. http://www.amazon.com/Starman-Truth-Behind-Legend-Gagarin/dp/0802779506
And here's a book by one of the pilot that flew into the fort: https://www.amazon.com/Apache-Inside-Cockpit-Fighting-Machine/dp/0802144780
In case you want descriptions or reviews, I've added Amazon links.
> The Happy Cook: 125 Recipes for Eating Every Day Like It's the Weekend by Daphne Oz
>Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
>Live by Night: A Novel by Dennis Lehane
>Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win -the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
>Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
>War Hawk: A Tucker Wayne Novel by James Rollins, Grant Blackwood
>Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik
>Downfall: A Brady Novel of Suspense by J. A. Jance
>Chaos: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell
>The Witch of Portobello: A Novel by Paulo Coelho
If you live in the southern portion of the US you should be able to find fungus growers
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis
http://mississippientomologicalmuseum.org.msstate.edu//Researchtaxapages/Formicidaepages/genericpages/Trachy.septent.htm
My parents have like a dozen colonies in their front yard in North Alabama, I have seen them in most of the SE USA out to Arizona.
South Texas has some of the Atta leafcutters like what are in south america.
Slave raiding ants of various genera live through out the US (actually slave raiding as an ant behavior is common in temperate areas) http://www.myrmecos.net/formicinae/slaveants.html
I have heard of people observing raids up into the north USA. I personally have seen 2 raids in my life, they are a little hard to find in some areas.
A good book about ants writen for general readers (with no biology /entomology background) is "Journey to the Ants" byB Holdobler and EO Wilson (the famous evolutionary biologist). I had the pleasure to meet Holdobler and I have corresponded with EO Wilson, both very cool people.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Ants-Story-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0674485262
If you have a biology background or want more you can get the book "The Ants" ... same authors. Pretty much the Bible of myrmecology.
http://www.amazon.com/Ants-Bert-H%C3%B6lldobler/dp/0674040759/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
Alan Turing: The Enigma is the inspiration for the movie.
Edit: More!
Here's a short list of what I would consider the cream of the crop as far as fundamental analysis books for a beginner:
Beating the Street
One Up on Wall Street
F Wall Street
Financial Times Guide to Value Investing
Getting Started in Value Investing
And of course
The Intelligent Investor
Jennifer Reese's "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" is a fun read about this kind of thing, and includes some great recipes. The creme fraiche was a revelation, so incredibly good!
Not a problem. I would highly recommend reading this book if you are interested and want to explore things more:
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Ants-Story-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0674485262
Based on your questions and lack of knowledge, keep your money in a savings account. Spend a couple of months learning about investing, how to read financial reports, how to decipher an 8k and 10k report. I don't mean this to be condescending, but if you start investing now or in six months, there will be almost no difference in your earnings, but there could be a huge difference in your losses unless you take some time to learn about the various investing methods, theories, and the actual hows and whys.
Start reading Peter Lynch's One Up on Wall Street, Beating the Street and Learn to Earn.
Each brings different things to the table. Again, please take no offense, but Learn to Earn is probably where you should start. It's aimed at teens/young adults learning about investing for the first time.
I'd recommend hitting up the library for these. When you get to the library, you'll find shelves of books on how to invest. Some are useless and others really good. Read a few chapters in each. If you have questions, run it by this board. There are plenty of people here who are more than happy to share their mainly educated opinions. And the good thing about reddit is that if one of us says something wrong, others are quick to correct or offer their two cents.
I'd also recommend The Millionaire Next Door, The Black Swan and the Richest Man in Babylon. while these last ones aren't how to invest, they are books about why and how we invest.
I'm a Taleb groupie and read everything by the man. I loved Black Swan, and also loved Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorderso you may want to try that one when your reading pile dwindles.
Keep saving, but take your time investing. Learn the basics, stick your toe in and then take the plunge.
I'm glad you asked! This Che manga was absolutely hilarious to read. Really goofy stuff.
This comic about Lenin was pretty cool too, though it was a lot more educational than the last one. There's also one on Marx by the same publishing company.
Here's an interesting bio of the guy.
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-Parsons/dp/0922915970
Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?
As far as non-fiction goes here are a few I like for kids:
Women in Science
Rad American Women
Girls Think of Everything
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
And if you search for any of these books there are always suggestions of tons of other great books. I have a Girl Scout troop so I'm always browsing for great pro-women books for them.
Also the Wreck this Journal books aren't "books" but still super fun for girls that age!
Here are a few suggestions:
Finally, here is a good video overview on some of Z's thought: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjHUtQ_GQY
I've read a few books about WW2 tech and I can't remember exactly which one talked about it - it may have been Alan Turing: The Enigma, or perhaps Simon Singh's The Code Book. I tried searching online but I can't find anything for some reason :/ I hope whichever book wrote about it didn't make it up.
Alan Turing didn't control what intelligence got pass on, in the end that was Stewart Menzies role. Once the hut 8 broke the naval enigma some moved on to breaking other enigma codes. Turing actually visited the US and started to work on voice encryption.
Alan Turing: The enigma is the biography the movie was loosely based off. It is highly detailed and I recommend it if you are interested in knowing more.
This article goes through the differences between the movie and reality
I'm betting on this as well.
If you want some insight into how stupid and bureaucratic car companies can be, read Bob Lutz's Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business. He tells a great story about his time at Ford (I think). One of the models had used poor quality head gaskets that were failing after 15-20K miles (which is a $1K repair for the customer). When Lutz tried to get it fixed, he was told they couldn't fix it, because the company had already worked the revenue from the replacement parts into its annual budget.
If you like this, I recommend reading this excellent book on Harrison, the inventor of the escapement. Harrison pretty much single-handedly changed how the seas were navigated, allowing ships to sail with much more precision and thus drastically reducing travel time.
A few links you might like. Warning, many of these are long:
http://www.thocp.net/index.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=440334862070787846
http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyJAX8F2jPg
http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4hO_-TuTlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23yie-779k
Really thought-provoking book. If you like that chapter, it gets a lot of its material from another book, Gang Leader For a Day, which I found even more interesting.
There's a book about this, too, called The Radioactive Boy Scout. I just finished reading it last week, and it is very good. Not a long read, and it gives you enough chemistry and physics to follow along.
The Only Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God doesn't think he's Larry Elisson
Now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768
If someone wrote 'The Game' on business, Larry would be the Oracle behind it.
Second GPP won these playoffs. Didn't win during regular season but developed a good cash game grind. Started in December getting my ass whooped for 30 days straight. Developed my process. Looking to get better, want to be a top DFS player. http://imgur.com/cElzZZD
Here is some helpful guides
Better decision making http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/conquering-complexity-simple-rules?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=05012016&utm_campaign=gsbbrand
Haralabos https://twitter.com/haralabob?s=09
Lowe Check out : https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA?s=09
Bballbreakdown http://bballbreakdown.com/
Great book on how become a stock picker totally applies to dfs Check out
http://www.amazon.com/Beating-Street-Peter-Lynch/dp/0671891634
Team blogs
http://www.sbnation.com/blogs
This guys article http://www.fantasylabs.com/articles/charlize-theron-fantasy-debt-and-the-proper-valuation-of-designated-hitters/
Podcasts 1
http://pca.st/YuLB
Podcasts 2
http://pca.st/8dO6
I didn't believe this until I read "Gang Leader for a Day" and you see how fucking corrupt and complicit the cops are.
Scientists like Feynman and Oppenheimer ("father of the Atomic Bomb"), also native New Yorkers.
Also Alexander Hamilton (not native, but mostly associated with NYC). He's cool enough to have a hit Broadway show about his life. Although if we're getting political, what's better than FDR, the guy who bitch slapped the Nazis while fighting a whole other war across the world.
But, of people alive today, I'd say Ruth Bader Ginsberg -- by a wide margin the most badass member of the Supreme Court as evidenced by this book.
If you haven't read Notorious RBG, I highly recommend it.
Books on Pirates:
The Invisible Hook.
Villains of All Nations
The Buccaneers of America
Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
The Sea Rovers Practice
The Buccaneers Realm
Empire of Blue Water
You should add this book to your present
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812966600/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_PCzrybXDEVF89
Personally, I think the best way to get a good understanding of modern US airpower is to work chronologically. Most people find WWII stuff boring, so I recommend starting with the Vietnam War, then moving to the First Gulf War, then the Kosovo War, then the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Falklands War is very interesting because it gives a British and naval perspective (both of which are lacking from my current list), however, the author of that book was pretty pissed at how every thing was handled during his time as a pilot (and a lot of it I agree with), so the book sometimes ends up feeling a little 'rant-y'.
If you're looking for an action filled book about rotorcraft, then look no further and pick up Ed Macy's Apache. Some of the missions described in that book are just too insane, but somehow, they pulled it off.
What you're looking for is celestial navigation and it is a LOT trickier than you would think. First, you need to be able to identify the navigation stars. When I was using c-nav on a daily basis I was able to identify 19 stars that were extremely useful for navigation. Without a sextant, specific math skills, an almanac, and the crazy little book that has all the information you need about the stars and planets (or a great compueter program to do it for you once you input your measurements), you'll still be a bit lost even if you know all the stars.
One thing you can do without all of the above is learn the declination of a few major stars. This will give you some sense of your latitude. For example, Arcturus has about a 20° dec. This just so happens to coincide with the southern tip of Hawaii. So if you sail north until Arcturus passes through the zenith, then you know that you are at the same latitude as Hawaii. Knowing your Longitude, however, is a much more difficult task.
http://www.celestialnavigation.net/
http://www.celnav.de/ (you can download ICE, which is what we used to do the calculations)
If you are actually interested in c-nav, I recommend you go to your local marina (if you have one) and see if the coast guard or a sailing society is putting on any courses in c-nav. It is one of the most satisfying things to do, but it does take time to learn. It is complicated and confusing. But man, when you can line up a pinwheel there is NO better feeling. To know that you are RIGHT THERE and you used tiny pinpricks of light gazillions miles away to find it. Man. Its amazing.
I also recommend the book Longitude by David Sobel as an interesting read that goes along with c-nav. Latitude was always easy. LONGITUDE, however, was a problem that plagued navigators for centuries.
Over at /r/ukpersonalfinance we have a small "recommended reading" list that's worth looking at.=: http://www.reddit.com/r/ukpersonalfinance/wiki/faq#wiki_recommended_reading
> Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
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> This book was written by the father of "value investing", and the mentor of Warren Buffett, who is widely accepted to be the world's most successful investor.
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> It was originally published in 1948, but Ben Graham updated it periodically over the years, and it stands as true today as it ever has.
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> Beating the Street - Peter Lynch
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> Published in 1994, this is arguably showing its age more than Intelligent Investor. Either way, valuable reading from one of the best managers of money in the past few decades.
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> Naked Trader - Robbie Burns
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> Subtitled "How anyone can make money trading shares", this is an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek account of one financial journalist's attempt to quit his job and make £1,000,000 using a short-to-medium term trading strategy. Not very scientific, but an interesting counterpoint to the previous recommendations.
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> Smarter Investing - Tim Hale
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> The ultimate counterpoint to attempting to "beat the markets" - after spending 15 years working in active fund manager, Tim Hale concluded that the best outcomes for most investors in most situations would be a simple portfolio of "passive" investments (that is, funds which attempt to track a market, rather than outperform it). This style is favoured by the likes of Monevator, and many of the subscribers here.
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> Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder letters - Warren Buffett
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> Not a book, but a series of essays over the years from the world's most successful investor. Makes interesting reading! Notably, the 2014 letter (not published in the above link but published here in abridged form) implies that he now feels most investors would be best served by low-cost trackers.
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> The Financial Times guide to investing - Glen Arnold
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> A great starter guide, going from the very basics (why businesses need shareholders) to more in-depth explanations of different types of investment, and step-by-step guides on how to execute trades.
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Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, travels the back roads of America.
I was surprised to find that the major event described in Sex and Rockets involved Jack Parsons doing an occult ceremony with Hubbard.
There are lots of great books about Port Royal in its heyday. The first ones I'd recommend are The Sack of Panama by Peter Earle and Empire of Blue Water by Stephen Talty which both give really solid broad introductions to the politics and environment of the Caribbean and Port Royal's relationship with buccaneers during its heyday in the 1660s until 1671 when England started to crack down on them.
If you want more specialized reading exclusively on Port Royal then I'd recommend Pirate Port: The story of the sunken city of Port Royal by Robert F. Marx for some light reading, and if you want a really excessively meticulous study of everything you ever wanted to know about Port Royal from written records and archaeological findings with lots of maps and reconstructions included then read Port Royal Jamaica by Michael Pawson and David Buisseret.
Lastly, a great primary source on Port Royal in its heyday is the contemporary book The Buccaneers of America which was published by Alexandre Exquemelin in 1678. Exquemelin himself was an actual former French/Dutch buccaneer and the book contains many of his first-person recollections, such as this describing the activities of buccaneers in Port Royal in the 1660s which has clearly influenced some modern pirate tropes:
> Captain Rock sailed for Jamaica with his prize, and lorded it there with his mates until all was gone. For that is the way with these buccaneers -- whenever they have got hold of something, they don't keep it for long. They are busy dicing, whoring and drinking so long as they have anything to spend. Some of them will get through a good two or three thousand pieces of eight in a day -- and next day not have a shirt to their back. I have seen a man in Jamaica give 500 pieces of eight to a whore, just to see her naked. Yes, and many other impieties.
> My own master used to buy a butt of wine and set in the middle of the street with the barrel-head knocked in, and stand barring the way. Every passer-by had to drink with him, or he'd have shot them dead with a gun he kept handy. Once he bought a cask of butter and threw the stuff at everyone who came by, bedaubing their clothes or their head, wherever he best could reach.
> The buccaneers are generous to their comrades: if a man has nothing, the others will come to his help. The tavern-keepers let them have a good deal of credit, but in Jamaica one ought not to put much trust in these people, for often they will sell you for debt, a thing I have seen happen many a time. Even the man I have just been speaking about, the one who gave the whore so much money to see her naked, and at that time had a good 3,000 pieces of eight -- three months later he was sold for his debts, by a man in whose house he had spent most of his money.
Always fun when that happens. If your interest is piqued, there's a book called 'Sex and Rockets' about John (Jack) Whiteside Parsons, the rocket pioneer/engineer, that details the goings on during that time, albeit more focused on Parsons' story with people like Hubbard on the periphery.
You have to take it in the context that at that time there was no other books that explored that topic to that degree. Today its assumptions are a bit dated and are divorced from its historical context. Personally, I would say it was influential by the nature of it being the only book available.
I would suggest reading “Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb”
https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzzle/dp/038541580X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540053354&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=prisoners+dilemma+william+poundstone&dpPl=1&dpID=51JDofUSNLL&ref=plSrch
I want to say it's from Osamu Tezuka.
Maybe this series?
https://www.amazon.com/Buddha-Vol-Kapilavastu-Osamu-Tezuka/dp/193223456X
Read anything written by a pilot who flew strike missions (a good example is this), or an attack helicopter pilot (e.g. this), or simply read about modern air strikes a lot, and you'll find complaints about "a guy moved into the strike area, causing the mission to be cancelled," etc. This is also indicated by relatively recent tightenings of ROE, like this. The military is made up of people too, and they don't like killing people they shouldn't have, so they try to avoid it within acceptable limits. Tighter ROEs make it more hazardous to soldiers, as it imposes higher burdens before a shot can be made.
Another example that I'm more familiar with is how ROE changes killed a whole class of airplane: the interceptor. Interceptors are fast, high altitude aircraft designed to make over-the-horizon kills with radar only. This means that they can't do things like read roundels, and ROE now dictates that you get positive visual identification of targets before a shot may be made, making the interceptor obsolete.
ROE is very important in modern air operations, for the reason that it doesn't look good when you kill a lot of innocent people. People who didn't deserve to die dying is an inevitable side-effect of military force, and while the military tries their best to avoid it, it's simply impossible to prevent. Civilian casualties are always going to happen, and the best way to avoid them is to not involve the military, and use civilian police forces instead that can use local knowledge and make decisions more carefully and slowly instead. If you want stuff to explode, use the military, if you want a careful approach, use civil measures.
I'm a sociology graduate and former social science teacher and lecturer, I don't think I need to read introductory books on Marxism, thanks all the same. This was always my favourite actually, it's almost 30 years since I read it! (Not that edition though)
A lot of people are answering your question, but I think i can add a different perspective on it so I'll take a stab at it, if you're interested in some automotive history. It does have a lot to do with the GOP being aligned with American business interests, but I would argue that the groundwork for the climate change denial movement was laid out in the response to the 1975 Cafe Laws This was a law that forced American Automotive manufacturers to consistently improve the average fuel economy of their fleet over time. This had the concurrent effect of forcing the American automakers to spend huge amounts of money trying to develop new engine and transmission technology that could meet the strict fuel economy standards. Meanwhile in nations like Germany and Japan where fuel was much harder to come by, their automakers had already been making reliable, fuel efficient cars. This created a catastrophe in the American markets when suddenly Toyota's and Volkswagen's started to be imported en masse as demand for fuel efficant vehicles skyrocketed. And at least at the economy car level these imports were completely superior in terms of efficiency and reliability when compared to their American counterparts; which were often sub-par products pushed to market simply to offset the low fuel economy of the gas guzzling family cars. You can see this difference in cars like the Chevy Chevette a terrible little car that has been all but forgotten, and the [Toyota Corolla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Corolla_(E30) which was the tip of the spear in Toyota's plan to penetrate the American market, and a nameplate that still survives today.
Now at this point you might be asking what all of this has to do with climate change denial so I'll cut to the chase. Climate change laws often force manufacturers to buy expensive new equipment and make disruptive changes to their processes, not just in Auto manufacturing but in all forms of industrial production. Bob Lutz who was an executive at Chrysler and later GM, when talking about the history of American car manufacturing in his book attributes these costly changes to what would amount to a dark age for American auto manufacturing in the 70's and 80's, era's defined by bad cars, huge quantities of layoffs, and government bailouts. In a more recent (and much less articulate) example of this logic you see our old friend Donald Trump declaring that Global warming is a Chinese hoax in order to make American business less competitive; and while I've never heard the Chinese Hoax part of that before, the conspiracy to make American business non competitive is a line of logic that has been kicked around in the business world for a while, by people much smarter than Donald Trump.
So in the end the typical republican stance of denying climate change goes much deeper than just fossil fuel company bribes. A massive part of their constituency has, and would suffer immensely from climate change laws. This is further complicated by the fact that its not just business that suffer but also regular people, in the form of layoffs and tax money being spent on bailouts. And in a job market where finding a decent paying job can be a real bitch, its easy to see why this logic resonates with so many people, manufacturing jobs pay decently well, and one could argue that they built the middle class in this country once upon a time; and the people who have these jobs are going to be opposed to having their lifestyle disrupted.
Therefore in order to make people understand that climate change is a real problem that must be dealt with, we must also concoct a system that protects jobs and our economy, and that is so much easier said than done.
Sorry people are downvoting you. I gave you a couple of ups. I was pretty sure you were joking but the Chicago pd is considered one of the most corrupt in the country. You should read Gang Leader for a Day. Good stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/Gang-Leader-Day-Sociologist-Streets/dp/1594201501
Marx for Beginners and Lenin for Beginners are decent books.
Trường Chinh's August Revolution and The Resistance Will Win are amazing.
I read The Radioactive Boy Scout which details his story about trying to making the reactor. I thought it was a good book.
I first read Andrew Hodges' Alan Turing: The Enigma in high school. The biography is WONDERFUL and I would highly recommend it to anyone inspired to learn more about Alan Turing. Hodges work and his Turing biography are largely responsible for the "rehabilitation" of Alan Turing's public stature and the resurgence of interest into Alan Turing's work and life.
The biography is a much more of a complete (and accurate) account of Alan Turing's life than what you see in The Imitation Game. Hodges spent 6 years meticulously researching Turing's life, interviewing surviving witnesses and going back to available primary sources, in order to provide a 3 dimensional picture of Alan Turing. The biography is intimate, insightful and notable for Hodges' empathetic account of Turing's sexual identity which broke with the cultural norms of the time (when it would have been "polite" to simply ignore or gloss over Turning's sexuality). It has, for good reason, been called one of the best scientific biographies ever written and really is the definitive Turing biography.
I.J. "Jack" Good (a fellow Bletchley cryptanalyst who worked with Turing in Hut 8 and after the war at Manchester University) gave it an impressive review:
>Researched and written extraordinarily well. It’s a first-class contribution to history and an exemplary work of biography.
>Nature 307, 663-664 (16 February 1984)
On his website, Hodges has a short biography of Turing, which you can read here, based on the entry he wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995.
The latest edition of Hodges' biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma - The Book That Inspired the Film, has been further updated (to include details from the centenary and the 2013 pardon) and has larger typeface to make it easier on the eyes. It's back in-stock on AMAZON and is available on KINDLE as well as iTunes / iBooks.
They knew about it before they could calculate it, and they knew it was really affecting naval powers' ability to do their thing. There's a great book called Longitude (this might be it, but there are a few books by that title on Amazon) describing how badly governments actually wanted someone who could work it out, and the process of working it out.
As to how it affected explorers: not only them but if affected people who knew where they were going. If you can't work out your longitude, you don't know how far along your journey you are unless you've been monitoring your speed and direction constantly and with perfect accuracy through a several-months-long voyage. Your only other option is to never ever ever leave site of land, but they worked out longitude after colonization of the new world started, so that wasn't always an option.
They tried some crazy shit to work it out before someone invented clocks, too. One popular strategy was to take two dogs who are brothers, leave one in London or wherever, and take the other on the ship. Every day, or every other day, or once a week, you stab the dog in London and hope its brother can sense the wound because of the familial connection and start whining for no reason out at sea.
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon is a now a travel writing classic, originally published in the early '80s. After separating from his wife, the author (a 30-something professor) converts his van into a sleeper and goes on a big circular road trip around the US. He sticks almost exclusively to the "blue highways"--smaller roads that used to be main routes before interstates--and writes about the people and landscapes he encounters.
It's a fascinating portrait of America, very rich and descriptive. Yet it moves along at a steady pace because he never stays in any one place too long. The whole thing is disarmingly exquisite, and I think that's why it has endured.
Anyone more interested in Parson's story must read "Sex and Rockets." One of the coolest biographies I've ever read. http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-Parsons/dp/0922915970
Might I also recommend this one by the same author? (An even better book, imho.)
A bit broader still, going over to rotary-wing: this one and this other one both by a British Apache pilot in Afghanistan. Both good stuff, though if I had to pick one of the two here it would be the first.
But this one right here is considered the definitive military rotary-wing book, and I'd agree with that. Huey pilot in 'Nam.
Excellent book. I also recommend this one by Bob Lutz
Also recommended is the book Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin.
Bob Lutz, who was President of Chrysler during the Neon years, wrote a book called Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business. If there was a car that represented this battle better than the Neon, I couldn't think of it.
For the most part, the Neon was fun to drive. The engineers made sure of that, especially if you got the five speed. It was lightweight, tossable, and had razor sharp cornering.
Then why was it such a piece of junk? The accountants decided that this car would be less expensive than the Japanese cars. Why? I'm not sure. The reason the Japanese cars were cheaper were due to a weak yen / strong dollar in the mid-90s as well as lower wages. But most importantly, the reason why the Japanese could sell the exact same car for less was due to lean manufacturing and good supplier relations.
Chrysler did not have lean manufacturing, good supplier relations, or a weak yen. Thus, to compete on price, they had to make the car a piece of junk. And they succeeded at this. Cut a dollar here by making the head gaskets as cheap as possibly. Cut a dollar there by making sure the weather stripping is ineffective. Cut multiple dollars by putting in a three speed automatic. Basically, Chrysler took a car that could have been a game changer and turned it into a low-price abomination that helped ruin Chrysler's reputation for the next two decades.
I can't help but wonder how different Chrysler's destiny would have been if management focused on their engineering strength instead of trying to compete on price. I always wondered if Bob Lutz was named CEO instead of President, what would have been different...
These are castings of species you can find in the US. Somewhere there are probably better quality photos but these are the best I could find. I saw these in a presentation given by Dr Tschinkel and he had a bunch of really awesome high quality shots that might not have made it to the web.
I actually met him and Dr. Holldobler (mentioned in the linked video) one summer in Arizona.
For anyone interested the book Journey to the Ants by EO Wilson and Holldobler is the laymen version of their seminal book The Ants... which is pretty much the bible for anyone that studies ants.
Interesting factiod: You can find some interesting species just about any place in the world... in the US there are about 400+ species including army ants, fungus growers, slave making ants, etc.
Anything by Simon Singh is worth reading. In addition to what others have recommended, these books are good:
[The man who loved only numbers](http://www.amazon.com/MAN-WHO-LOVED-ONLY-NUMBERS/dp/0786884061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254333710&sr=8-1
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Flatland
Prisoner's Dilemma
A mathematician reads the newspaper
A mathematician plays the stock market
Innumeracy: mathematical illiteracy and its consequences
Also, while not exactly about Maths:
Surely you are joking, Mr Feynman
What do you care what other people think?
The Art of Computer Programming
Empire of Blue Water seems to fit your request. It is largely based on historical accounts of Henry Morgan and attempts to be historically accurate. At the same time written in an engaging way by someone who is primarily a writer. Not being a historian I found it very interesting.
If you read slightly further back into this subreddit's history there are actual real historians who post here. They made a list of historically good books someone interested in the history of piracy could read. If you search on Amazon at other books the authors listed there have written you will most likely find many more interesting books on the subject. I am planning to get this book on pirate hunting next, written by one of the listed authors.
Here are some books that I found might be interesting.
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons -- Rocket scientist by day; sex magician by night. Also blew himself up accidentally.
Secret Teachings of All Ages -- This is the book I am getting soon and this edition as it has most of the illustrations. This is a survey on a bunch of different topics.
My amazon wishlist is a fucking mess now...
Here is the first one.
Get a copy of Blue Highways and a Ford Transit Connect. The book will explain how to live out of a vehicle, and will help lift your spirits. It sounds like the sort of adventure you need. The van only has a four cylinder engine, so it should be somewhat economical. I'd think that by adding a power inverter and free WiFi, this could be fun.
Related.
This was the first book I bought from my university's book store. It's still one of my favorites, and it sounds like it might become one of yours.
There is a biography of him that is titled The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
You're welcome! If you're interested in Soviet Space history, I can't recommend the Leonov book enough. He has a really great first-hand perspective and an amazing story to tell. (It alternates chapters with Astronaut David Scott, and it's really cool to see how their lives cross paths and run parallel). There's also a biography of Gagarin that was reprinted last year and is absolutely fantastic as far as both his life and some general political stuff. I don't see the need for Lost Cosmonaut conspiracies when the real stories are so fascinating and full of intrigue!
If you'd like to read more, Starman is a pretty awesome book about Yuri Gagarin and the Soviet space program. http://www.amazon.com/Starman-Truth-Behind-Legend-Gagarin/dp/0802779506
Why not read a book on all of them?
Just imagine how I must have felt when I discovered that ants have diplomacy, propaganda, policing, warfare, a waste management system and nest architecture as, if not more, complicated than humans! How could you not love them!
If you want to know more, I highly recommend reading:
http://www.amazon.ca/Journey-Ants-Story-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0674485262
In my own research, it was the fact that what ever I discover in ants seem to apply to other organisms. Its very exciting. Because ants are social, it seems that discovering the hoydens secret of biology is easier. We would have never discovered that we could induce the dormant potential of super soldier ants had they not taken care of these are anomalies in their colonies. They are like humans, they take care of their less fortunate!
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Probably a bit late for anyone to see this, but the book that Krulwich references in the article, Starman, is $2.77 on amazon, and is Prime eligible.
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Relevant: Maybe he's right!
Gonick also has a History of The U.S., by the way.
Van Lente and Dunlavey's Action Philosophers is also a candidate if you're into the history of philosophy. In fact, while I'm at it, let me recommend the "For beginners" series about different philosophers and philosophic traditions. Examples: Marx, Freud, Existensialism etc. For a preview of the series, check out Philosophy for beginners at Google Books.
Edit: They even have reddit favourite Noam Chomsky for beginners!
Marx For Beginners is the closest thing I can think of that's already out there.
There was this:
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
Though, the book is a pretty awesome read:
http://www.amazon.com/Radioactive-Boy-Scout-Backyard-Nuclear/dp/037550351X
Gang leader for a day. The author has ties with [Freakonomics] (http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_analyzes_crack_economics.html)
There's a much lighter read that hits just the fun and interesting points. It is sort of the highlights reel to "The Ants". It's by the same two icons...Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler. It's called Journey to the Ants
If you like that, you should buy the book
Okay. A point that has not been brought up until now. Soviet spacecraft land by parachute on LAND. Retro rockets are supposed to "soften" the landing. Okay. You're riding the prototype for this theory. Hell f$Cking yes I"m gonna open the motherf$cking door and bail my ass outta that bad boy rather than sit and wait to see if the theory works.
Also see http://www.amazon.com/Starman-Truth-Behind-Legend-Gagarin/dp/0802779506/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302653339&sr=8-1
If you haven't read it yet, you might enjoy this book.
Here's a really nice accessible book on him if you're interested
Nope that's a Larry Ellison [book] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Difference-Between-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768) I can't accept that answer as a punchline.
Someone emailed me yesterday and asked a similar question. I responded with this reading list:
These aren't novels, of course. All of it is non-fiction. But I think that is what you meant. And they aren't textbooks either. I'm also guessing you were looking more for applications than pure theory.
I think this comes pretty close.
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Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should (and Shouldn't) Cook from Scratch to Save Time and Money
Yeah me 3 ... recommend it, and if you liked the movie I highly recommend the book and if you firehose that, might be time to get the paper On Computable Numbers
Blue Highways
Read it. Take them. Second on joining Planet Fitness, will give you access to nice bathrooms/showers/AC/WiFi along the way, as well as an exercise outlet. Find one next to Wal Mart and bonus campsite out front. $1,500 will be challenging, but get as far as you can go. Couchsurf where you can, learn to love Ramen. You won’t be able to afford many meals out, stock up at grocery stores, not convenience stores. Set your expectations low, your tolerance high, and just take the experience for what it is. You’ll learn a lot. Quickly. As a parent, I’d hope you have a safety net, or at least are not burning the bridge on your way out of Florida. Enjoy it, if I have any regrets at 51, it’s that I didn’t do something similar before settling in to life, but am looking forward to do this in another decade, albeit a bit more comfortably.
Actually there are a ton of these books, I just didn't want to spam people with book recs. Some other faves (written by women I don't know, haha) are Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky and literally-reading-it-right-now Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee
[](/a06 "What? No mention of the Peterson Projection??") Longitude by Dava Sobel is also a fun little read.
Anyone who's interested in this should undoubtedly check out the book Gang Leader for a Day. Absolutely fantastic, captivating read.
Sudhir Venkatesh, perhaps?
His book is very interesting--he's mentioned repeatedly in both "Freakonomics" books as well. Suhir, as well as Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (authors of Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics) are the reasons Behavioral Economics is kind of a "hobby" of mine.
David Hahn.. Pretty good read, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Ants-Story-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0674485262
Ok I had to review with my wife which was which because I was conflating a couple books we got.
This one, was a bit heavy handed but actually a pretty solid set of biographies about women in science that also discusses the struggles they had specifically as women. Heavy handed sometimes but overall good.
This one was hot garbage. It was tons of ham fisted biographies of women where the overall message is "women are better than men." The lessons from the stories were lame, the overall message was lame, it wasn't well written. That one was a stinker.
This was the fairy tale one. It is a really beautiful book but the "updated" stories are just these lame modernized stinkers like "Cinderella is mistreated so she forms her own company to respect workers rights" and the like. So the author bravely "subverts" all the classic fairy tales (oooh how post modern!) and you are left with a kind of a preachy collection of over the top screeds. It isn't quite as bad as I am making it out to be but overall it was more annoying than refreshing.
I'm a 19-year-old boy from Ottawa, Canada (you may have heard of our little country :P ). While I was not homeschooled per se during my public school years (I went to regular English schools), I definitely learned more quickly, more thoroughly and more widely due to my parents' constant efforts to teach me things that went way above and beyond what I was "learning" at my high school.
My parents are both high school teachers, and have each spent roughly 30 years teaching their respective subjects.
My dad actually just retired last year, but he taught most of the Social Studies curriculum during the course of his career (History, Philosophy, Psychology, World Religions, etc.). He is a bilingual Francophone from Ottawa, so he taught at one of the French Catholic high schools in our area. He also happens to be somewhat skeptical of religion (not an atheist, but damned close). Odd combination, yes, but it has resulted in him introducing me to
military history, everything from the Roman legions to the Knights Templar to the Taliban.
My mother was born in Ottawa, to Greek parents who had left Greece after the Second World War; my grandparents are from a village about 20 minutes away from the modern city of Sparti (Sparta). During the war, the village was at some point occupied by Axis forces (I'm not sure when or to what extent, because my grandparents' English is not great and only my mother speaks Greek).
I decided to include a list (below) of works that I've found particularly interesting (I've never actually written down a list of my favs before, so this may be somewhat... sprawling and will be in no particular order :P ). Depending on the ages of your kids, some of this stuff might be inappropriate for them right now, but they can always check it out when they're older. It's mostly military/wartime history that interests me (it's what I plan on studying in university), but I've learned so many little tidbits about other things as well from having access to these works. Since your kids are all boys, I hope they'll find at least some of this stuff to be interesting :) .
Books
Movies and TV
This is all non-fiction. If you like this list, let me know, and I can expand on it further, and also include my favourite works from other genres, as well as my favourite fiction books as well :) . I left out tons of stuff that I'm too much of a lazy teenager to type in here, lol.
Yes! I wish the interview was longer. I also just got a copy of [Notorious RBG] (https://www.amazon.com/Notorious-RBG-Times-Bader-Ginsburg/dp/0062415832/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) and her time in law school was so inspiring as well.
Buddha and Christ not going off and having weird adventures? I think Christopher Moore and Osamu Tezuka would like a word with you.
Two books to read:
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon and Ghost Rider by Niel Peart (the drummer for Rush, who is BTW, an excellent author, and has done some epic solo journeys). Both are solo travelogues.
A quote from the first book:
"A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."
The main reason I recommend Ghost Rider, is for one of Neil's road habits, which is that he collects stickers from the Ranger Booth at National Parks, and has a goal to collect them all. This is a cool idea because it gets you somewhere you might not otherwise go, and he seemed to meet a lot of interesting people this way.
edit: I would add about Ghost Rider, that it is also an incredibly moving book, in that it deals with Neil's grief over the loss of his only daughter (car wreck) and his wife (cancer) in the span of year. His way of grieving is to ride his motorcycle some 12,000+ miles.
fantastic read, great story, great history, great 'history of science' anecdote. great tl;dr:
> scurvy bad; science hard
this piece reminded me a lot of another similar book about the development of the chronometer:
longitude
yes.
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I had my life in a complete shit, at about age 25. I was divorced, working jobs I hated with a degree I didn't want to get but was pressured by my parents to get because it was lucrative. I got laid off on my birthday, my wife cheated on me, we had moved to Seattle where I knew next to no-one and it was very difficult to make friends easily. I left with hardly anything except the dog and was very happy. Do you know why? Because I had had some damned stupid epiphanies when I was 16 where I had seen myself on my death bed and glimpsed all these things I saw to do before I died. (Try imagining yourself there and what you'd want to see, its sobering.) And you know what? I knew two things. I refused to give that old man any regret. and all the wounds I had now were a part of who that old fuck was.
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Shit now it got tough. I set out to do what I loved doing, but had no idea what the fuck that was. So I read a lot of philosophers, psychologists and people I respected's biographies. R. Buckminster Fuller helped. So did Joseph Campbell. I learned about my Unconscious mind. I began to un-learn bad habits by forcing myself to do things I didn't want to do to unlearn fear. I read books on Unlearning such as "The Essential Crazy Wisdom" and "Shaving the Inside of your Skull." I unlearned attachment to money by living on hardly anything and reading "Your Money or your Life". I unlearned attachment to social norms / groupthink by doing strange things in public. Seriously. It didn't help when girls started liking me for this, that was only encouraging. But it was good too because I got good at calling myself on my own bullshit, like when I was being ungrounded, or attached to things that are insignificant.
Finding out what you Love is tougher. Campbell says "follow your bliss" and then he saw what people made of that and said "I should have said 'follow your blisters'." For me, I tried to remember what it felt like to play as a child and I tried to do one thing a day that felt like play.
Of course by now you're wondering if I got another job. Naw, I consulted here and there, but shit for the life of me I'd have the weirdest people ask me to do the weirdest things. Since I was nutty, I started finding there were lots of nutty people with nutty money. I began working for lawyers, writers, pharmacists, flag makers, silk soy milk, the world health organization, universities, I even worked in hollywood. shrug.
Life is weird if you let it be.
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Soon I began to find various mentors, I contacted authors by hunting down their emails. I took them to lunch. It didn't take too long for me to become homeless at this point (hell everyone was being then and I figured I might as well choose it because I was being lame and wasn't traveling.) And so I began traveling around meeting authors and taking them to Thai restaurants. I learned so much about my own potential, my own proclivities. Fuck I learned what my learning style was, after 20 some years in an education system no one had bothered to even test that shit. I used couchsurfing.com a lot and read books like Blue Highways and then learned more and more about not trusting what my limbic system's predictions of what I thought life was, and rather would put myself in situations and truly experience these things, and was time and again wowed by the wonder of this.
Of course around this time that movie about that wanker who died in Alaska came out and everyone kept telling me how I reminded me of him. Sure I went camping a lot too but that kid was a numbnuts. Damn dude.
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Pretty soon I was traveling around like Kane in Kung fu, getting in adventures and helping people and shit. I'd move from place to place, went all the way down the Pacific Ocean side of the US, then across America, mostly on foot. I met amazing people, met celebrities, couchsurfed in mansions and only slept out when I wanted to. It was as if because I was so curious as to who I really was inside, everyone was really curious in me. I think an ounce of that curiosity is enough for the average person to get by. If you have any curiosity of who you are, or what your potential is, then you'll do pretty well. But the problem is you get superstitious because life is so fucking crazy. seriously.
The other problem with this lifestyle is that you begin to see how fucking feeble and fragile our society is. Drop oil and 99% of this country is fucked. I mean close the 7/11 and you've killed 80% of the state of california cause they can't get doritos. I wish I were joking here. Anyhoo, I decided to go a little rural and walked and walked until I found ways to help people and learn gardening, survival skills, etc. I did work with Iraq Veterans in Sweat Lodges helping them find themselves. I couchsurfed. I wrote Universities and made up titles and gave lectures on subjects I loved but had no credentials on. People hesitated to let me on stage, but I was well received because I loved what I was talking about. I learned hypnosis (mentor) and put friends in trance to help them learn to speak with their Unconscious minds. I lived.
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Now mind you I did all this with my dog too. He had a good time. People loved him but then I got summoned home by a death in the family. While there, I did what I needed to do and gave the abridged version of what I was doing with life to people (Rilke: 'never horrify your parents by telling them what you truly are.')
Next I decided to find people who were like me. I had been homeless a year and figured I'd need to find some people who basically lived as if in the 1800s. I kept wandering until I found a farm where they had an extra cabin. They liked me, I fit in great and was invited to live there. I lived here still and am having a great time. I built earth batteries to power it. I carried water from a spring that comes out of some rocks at the base of a mountain. I have a beautiful girlfriend who wants to paint and kiss me and pet my dog and plant our garden. I write stories and make japanese swords out of scrap pieces of wood that smell.
Now at this point, I can't tell you how to do it, thats your own way. Thats what you see when you think of yourself on your death bed. Sure its morbid, sure it takes a lot of time, sure it is fucking insane and horrifying, but thats what gives it meaning. Things like that strike you to your core and there you are, who you really are. Just keep breathing and calm yourself. Its just your imagination.
TLDR: my life sucked. I stopped doing what others told me to do. I stopped making decisions out of fear. I played every day. Then did crazy shit. Now am happy.
[A snazzy Harry potter water bottle!] (https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Buffalo-HP1664-Gryffindor-20-Ounces/dp/B0164809P2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1527744053&sr=8-3&keywords=harry+potter+waterbottle)
[A gorgeous floral suit!] (https://www.amazon.com/ADOME-Swimwear-Womens-Monokini-Swimsuits-Bathing/dp/B07CYWBBK1/ref=sr_1_76_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1527744383&sr=8-76-spons&keywords=floral+swim)
[ I think everyone needs a pizza beach towel!] (https://www.amazon.com/WANTU-Microfiber-Beach-Towel-Multifunctional/dp/B07BF5MLQL/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1527744465&sr=8-3-spons&keywords=pizza+beach+towel&psc=1)
[ A rubber duck for your pool sounds amazing!] (https://www.amazon.com/GAME-Giant-Derby-Inflatable-Float/dp/B0196KKY6E/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1527744556&sr=8-18&keywords=pool+float)
[A cute pair of sunglasses!] (https://www.amazon.com/Kate-Spade-Darilynn-Sunglasses-Gradient/dp/B00S8L1OB2/ref=sr_1_17?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1527744755&sr=1-17&nodeID=7141123011&psd=1&keywords=sunglasses+kate+spade)
[ A floral beach bag] (
https://www.amazon.com/Waterproof-Original-Lightweight-Shoulder-Shopping/dp/B078SKQN8R/ref=sr_1_30?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1527744885&sr=1-30&nodeID=7141123011&psd=1&keywords=beach+bag)
[A book about the strong women involved within the science field] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607749769/ref=s9_acsd_zgift_hd_bw_b2_c_x_3_w?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-12&pf_rd_r=Y5EWX7PNS9N9ZFF59TE9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=fa1855b5-f3d3-592a-9c59-d14bda0d8982&pf_rd_i=2)
[The I know what you did last summer trilogy] (https://www.amazon.com/Know-What-Summer-Still-Always/dp/B001F4Y2A4/ref=sr_1_11?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1527745161&sr=1-11&keywords=summer&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650304011)
[ A set of Popsicle molds to make our very own frozen treats!] (https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Paradise-Popsicle-Molds-Blue/dp/B01DTGJX0Y/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1527745353&sr=1-3-spons&keywords=popsicle+mold&psc=1)
[ I think that this palm tree makes great summer decor!] (https://www.amazon.com/Lightshare-Lights-Decoration-Christmas-Nativity/dp/B0123SJ1SI/ref=sr_1_10?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1527745407&sr=1-10&keywords=summer+outdoor+decor)
[I'd love to give my grandfather this tumbler! He has always been there for me and is one of the kindest people you will ever meet.] (https://www.amazon.com/Tervis-1168985-Definition-Tumbler-Clear/dp/B00RVXNAWO/ref=sr_1_5?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1527745530&sr=1-5&keywords=dad+tervis+tumbler)
[A 'murica hat!] (https://www.amazon.com/MURICA-FOURTH-JULY-USA-america/dp/B00J9TTE46/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1527745682&sr=8-2&keywords=murica)
[ A llama is the best thunder buddy that you could ask for!] (https://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Plush-12-Llama-Flopsie/dp/B001PJXGJ2/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1527745766&sr=1-2&keywords=llama+stuffed+animal)
[ Rainy days are the best to learn new hobbies!] (
https://www.amazon.com/ALEX-Toys-Craft-Chunky-Funky/dp/B000BWYN78/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527745823&sr=8-1&keywords=learn+to+knit+kit+for+kids)
[ I would bring the new Panic! at the disco CD] (https://www.amazon.com/Pray-Wicked-Panic-At-Disco/dp/B07BMDQMQX/ref=sr_1_1_twi_aud_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1527745899&sr=8-1&keywords=panic+at+the+disco)
[You never want to forget sunscreen!] (https://www.amazon.com/Neutrogena-Defense-Sunscreen-Lotion-Spectrum/dp/B00AEN4QZ8/ref=sr_1_7_s_it?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1527745996&sr=1-7&keywords=sunscreen)
[These pineapple socks are adorable!] (https://www.amazon.com/Socksmith-Womens-Pineapple-Wintergreen-Multi/dp/B01B3DHGJ0/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1527746095&sr=8-17&keywords=pineapple)
[Tomatoes!] (https://www.amazon.com/Million-Organic-Seeds-Jays-643451295290/dp/B01CVUW054/ref=sr_1_2?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1527746179&sr=1-2&keywords=tomatoe+seed)
[Have a splashing good time with this!] (https://www.amazon.com/Banzai-Waves-Water-Discontinued-manufacturer/dp/B0000VSGU0/ref=sr_1_20?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1527746339&sr=1-20&keywords=water+slide)
[Become a shark with your very own hand puppet!] (https://www.amazon.com/Schylling-Shark-Hand-Puppet/dp/B01APYB090/ref=sr_1_9?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1527746444&sr=1-9&keywords=shark)
I want to read this awesome Radioactive Boy Scout book which will give me mucho summerfuntime! :)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0812966600/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1404220794&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
...and that part about prostitution was taken from Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
And don't forget the mastermind who solved it all!
And if you want a good book all about it I'd recommend this one.
For a look at what went into finding the longitude, look here
Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)
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Empire of Blue Water is a great telling of his life story. We probably know more about him than any other pirate, him being a government official for so long. Not many pirates, especially from the Golden Age of Piracy, have much in the way official records to back up their legends.
I'm a big nerd when it comes to pirates, in case that wasn't clear.
http://www.amazon.com/Car-Guys-vs-Bean-Counters/dp/1591846226
> I want to stick with mutual funds though
Only you can decide what's best for you. Try to stick w/ no-load funds.
> I think individual stocks are too risky
If you're trying to time the market, then, yes, you will lose money. If you become a day trader, you will lose money. But, do not be afraid of individual stocks. The goal is to accumulate stocks without selling them and to buy more during dips. The stock went down 10%? Buy more. It went down another 5%? Buy more. You have time on your hand. Diversification is key. Think long-term and be patient. One of Buffett's idioms is: "No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant."
If you're still convinced about Mutual Funds, I recommend you read a book by Peter Lynch, a famed Fund manager. It's Beating The Streat. It's a book written in the mid-90's, but, the info. is very much current.
On a related note, if you're a reader and love RBG, you should check out this book.
Unfortunately, beyond the fact that he died in a failed reentry, the story you commonly see surrounding the incident is unverified. Any article that provides sources (eg the Wikipedia article or the NPR article) will always lead back to this one recent book on the subject, where the story originates, which is heavily debated wherever it pops up as a source. Its details have not been verified by anyone despite its narrative becoming quite popular. The NPR article, which probably popularized this story online, even added "these events, if true" before proceeding to cover the book's telling of events, and had to release a follow-up to look at specific details that are amiss due to reader responses casting doubt:
https://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-cosmonauts-fiery-death-retold
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Ants-Story-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0674485262/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JSDRVFU09F20&keywords=journey+to+the+ants&qid=1565978249&s=gateway&sprefix=journey+to+the+ants%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-1
https://www.nhbs.com/the-ants-of-central-and-northern-europe-book
No, I'm objecting to the fact that we assign the greatest currency value to the labor of those who produce the least use-value.
As for the rest, I'll tell you exactly why it matters.
Take all the imaginary currency out of the equation. Does your CEO have a useful skill that can be applied to the (actual, not financial) benefit of mankind? No? What the fuck is he being paid for, then?
A steamfitter makes a difference in the world, as does a cook, a nurse, a midwife, and a biomedical engineer. All of these people, if financial instruments were to simply cease to exist, have value and add value to the world with their labor.
That is use-value. When your labor actually serves some kind of purpose other than pissing about with money, then you create use-value.
Might I suggest an excellent book, if you would like some real understanding of the topic?
This kid already tried it. There's a book about it and everything:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Radioactive-Boy-Scout-Frightening/dp/0812966600/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398732658&sr=8-1&keywords=the+radioactive+boy+scout
If you have any further interest, I highly recommend Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin for more information. There's also been a wealth of declassified documents released from the former soviet archives in Russia regarding its space program.
Buddha - the graphic novels
Longitude
Was a great book:
http://www.amazon.com/Radioactive-Boy-Scout-Backyard-Nuclear/dp/037550351X
I read a book about this guy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Radioactive-Boy-Scout-Frightening-Homemade/dp/0812966600/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1319228310&sr=8-2
I read the book in about 10th grade by choice (2006) and it was a very interesting book.
there's actually a very good (and short) comic out there called Marx for Beginners which is a real basic intro to the philosophical and historical origins of Marxism (describing Hegel, and the basic ideas of historical materialism, going into how it shaped Marx's ideas on socialism), I'd recommend it highly for anyone whose just getting into socialist theory.
You mentioned game theory but not exactly at what level he would want to read (textbook level, popsci level) etc. If you want a good textbook level (that is also readable), I would go with
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Theory-Analysis-Roger-Myerson/dp/0674341163/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1324407308&sr=8-5
If you wanted more of a popsci book, I would take a look at
http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-William-Poundstone/dp/038541580X/ref=pd_sim_b_7
I haven't actually read this one (I flipped through it a while ago) but I like Poundstone's writing style. It might frustrate you if you actually know some game theory.
In my opinion (as someone who is getting a phd in game theory), game theory really sounds a lot cooler and more profound than it really is. I don't think it really has the same type of allure once you peel away the fact that it has an awesome title.
My actual recommendation for this area would be
http://www.amazon.com/Networks-Crowds-Markets-Reasoning-Connected/dp/0521195330/ref=pd_sim_b_8
which is not strictly game theory but a really awesome way to view the world. I am biased since this book is a great primer for my research area but I think this might be interesting and a much better compromise between popsci and textbook.
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon. I absolutely love travel writing, and this is the best travel book that I've ever read.
If you want to read a little about why some people don't put much faith into MBAs you should read this pretty short book.
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters
A lot of business majors deal with finance and as such their brains only see numbers, they tend to not be product/service focused.
This can lead to all sorts of issues if you don't at least pay a little attention to those things.
If you're serious about retiring early then learn to do the math and invest.
Phil Town's Rule#1 is a decent start, supplemented with foundations from Peter Lynch's Beating the Street, motley fool website.
Obviously don't accrue any debt during this time and continue to save.
Live FAR below your means.
/good luck
I have no research experience whatsoever, but 2 things spring to mind.
Do like Dunkin Donuts does to its franchise owners, and spy on them, looking for new cars, large homes, and other signs of consumption.
Or do what Sudhir Venkatesh describes in Gang Leader For A Day and get people to trust you, then ask them for economic data about their illicit activities. If corruption is widespread and relatively acceptable you might be able to get people to tell you dollar amounts at least in general terms.
Another good one is Sex and Rockets
https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-Parsons/dp/0922915970
If you want to know EVERYTHING about ants, I recommend E.O. Wilson's The Ants.
However, this book is quite expensive and very dense. Journey to the Ants,also by Wilson, is a much better option for laypeople. It has almost all the information you're looking for, nice pictures, and is honestly very exciting to read. It captures the imagination and is very... inspirational! Check it out from a library if you can.
You may not have been alive fifteen years ago.
But if you like to read "personal finance"....you really NEED to read these.
Peter Lynch
https://www.amazon.com/One-Up-Wall-Street-Already/dp/0743200403
https://www.amazon.com/Beating-Street-Peter-Lynch/dp/0671891634/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Andrew Tobias
https://www.amazon.com/Only-Investment-Guide-Youll-Ever/dp/0544781937/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466002617&sr=1-1&keywords=andrew+tobias
Not sure if its the time period you are looking for but Empire of the Blue Water goes into some depth on pirate/privateer wealth. Port Royal was one of the richest cities in the West Indies before being completely destroyed in an Earthquake. Modern Kingston was a small village on the mainland across the bay from Port Royal at the time.
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Blue-Water-Americas-Catastrophe/dp/0307236617
I'd really recommend "Buddha" by Osamu Tezuk. It's a great intro to one of the forefathers of the genre, and chock full of the myths and history of that period in time.
Yeah, it's only about ~40 pages if you don't include the prefaces. It's "basic" because its a fundamental text of Marxist theory, but its not written in "plain language". I'd recommend Marx for Beginners by Ruis. It's in cartoon format, but don't underestimate it. It gives you a good overview of Marx's philosophic, economic, and revolutionary aspects (which are paramount for a good understanding of socialism), and it's pretty readable.
Also, check out socialism on Wikipedia. You can even have Wikipedia compile a Socialism "book" for you, which is just a collection of all the different Wikipedia articles on socialism delivered to you as a PDF or other file format so you can read it on your iPhone, Kindle, print it or whatever.
This book my help you
There was a book about it.
There's a book out there, too. I read it in college and it was short, but definitely entertaining. Wouldn't necessarily buy it, but a good one to get from your local library if you need something to read on a summer trip.
There's also Rius' Marx for Beginners It's cute and non-confrontational, it's also relatively simple to understand to the uninitiated, and of course it's funny as heck x3
You could also get them some Smurfs comic books xD
Sounds like a new version of David Hahn - The Radioactive Boy Scout
Thanks for the info! Gifts can be so challenging. I'm sure she'll appreciate whatever you get her and that you went through the trouble of trying to find a thoughtful gift!
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One of these literary mugs would go great if you decide to do a coffee-themed gift!
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Tickets to a concert of a band she likes?
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Since she's studying psychology, she might get a kick of out this phrenology head bust. Especially if her end goal is to be a therapist or psychologist, she could ultimately put it in her office.
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Since she likes learning about influential people throughout history, if she's a fan of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this book is super popular.
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Being in college, a portable charger would come in handy if she doesn't already have one! A nice bag 1, 2 would last a long time, so she could even use it at the start of her career. Or an Instant Pot for a quicker way for her to cook her meals. I wish Instant Pot would have been around when I was in college!
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Some other ideas:
If she lives in a dorm or apartment, she may like decorating with a wall tapestry (1, 2, 3, 4)
Ring with the coordinates of her school or hometown
Female empowerment necklace
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Blue Highways - A Journey Into America by William Least-Heat Moon
The idea is that you take only the blue-colored highways on a map (meaning the lesser-traveled roads, i.e. NOT big Interstates) to meander your way across the country and you'll experience more.
/s Not sure what color they would be in Google Maps though...
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[Empire of Blue Water] (https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Blue-Water-Americas-Catastrophe/dp/0307236617) by Stephan Talty. It focuses primarily on the real Captain Henry Morgan, the privateer, turned pirate, turned pirate hunter, but uses his life story as a jumping off point to go into the history of piracy in the early Americas. Fascinating stuff.
I am on mobile but I was gifted 2 books that I think are great for her! One book was about 50 amazing women scientists. The other was called "Bad Girls from History" which tells the stories of courageous, rebellious, yet influential women. I'll try to come back to my comment later today and add the proper titles.
EDIT: Added proper book titles:
For an introduction to game theory you might try reading The Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone. It's very digestible (if a bit verbose) and a good introduction to the concept of you like story telling. This is no a technical book at all and misses out on a lot of meat of the idea.
For a free and more direct inrroduction to game theory you can go to the website ncase.me/trust. Of course there is also Wikipedia.
As for evolutionarily stable reproductive strategies, I sent know if inner singular source. I watch an inordinate amount of nature documentaries. Wikipedia has a good article on evolutionary game theory. I think watching a lot of nature documentaries is helpful because animals obviously don't care about human morality, but sometimes demonstrate behaviors that could be said to align with our moral systems due to evolutionary pressures. Most animals aren't monogamous, but in species that are there are clear environmental pressures that encourage monogamy. Emperor penguins are monogamous, not because it is most, but because they nest far from their food source during the harsh winter. Without a parent to keep the egg warm, the chick would definitely die, but while holding the egg that parent is unable hunt. A single parent could not raise a chick, it takes 2. The parents then trade off watching the chick and eating. For other animals, raising young isn't such a huge investment. See turtles will burn their eggs and then just crawl off the beach to never see ether again, because they are going for quantity over wishlist. Skink mothers sometimes eat their own eggs if too many predators around, because it's better those nutrients go back to them than to a predator.
As for modifying human behavior, lookup skinner boxes and operant conditioning. It simply demonstrates that animals (including humans) will do more of the things you reward them for and less of the things you punish then for. We don't punish thieves because they deserve it, we punish thieves because it prevents thievery.
Is it this one? I can't find one called just Game Theory
Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb https://www.amazon.com/dp/038541580X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qB2EzbYH25WTR
Empire of Blue Water - covers the main characters (e.g. Morgan), and gives a history of piracy in the caribbean around the 17th Century. Some incredible tales of hardship, perseverance and success. https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Blue-Water-Americas-Catastrophe/dp/0307236617
since a movie came out recently on turing, perhaps alan turing biography by andrew hodges? from what i could gather, it's a highly regarded book. i'm thinking of reading it myself.
http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Inspired-Imitation/dp/069116472X
I'm questioning your premise, not bringing down the OP. Chill out and learn how to respond to criticism.
edit: I know for sure that some of your examples are objectively wrong. To call Warren Buffet an idea guy is absolutely laughable and completely impractical as an example for the OP. Buffet worked his ass off as an employee for years, saving up money and eventually became a part of several investment partnerships, where he basically picked stocks and invested in business.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
My source re: Larry Ellison is this book, https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/dp/0060008768 - which I read about a decade ago.
re: Notch, just Google him.
Spreading this kind of misinformation is downright destructive for people who consider themselves 'idea people,' because it perpetuates a myth that some of the greatest entrepreneurs didn't have hard skills. Don't forget that Notch, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates were all good to great programmers. Jobs also knew hardware. Notch had made a ton of games before Minecraft.
I just looked up Dan Peña and... he started in real estate and worked in investment banking and then as a CEO-for-hire before founding a company that forced him out a decade later. He has a book about how litigation is just a business tool. Not a great role model for OP, who wants to change the world with million-dollar ideas!
OP already has some hard skills - he can program! Don't blow smoke up his ass by telling him he can just take his brilliant ideas and get good at shopping them around.
Look, I've given a ton of advice in this thread. I'm not getting down on OP. They're obviously very enthusiastic and have a lot of energy.
But this idea that there's a class elite entrepreneurs that just shop ideas around? You can't name a single entrepreneur who actually did this! Ad agencies - really? Like Don Draper is a role model for an aspiring entrepreneur? And your other examples are about philosophers and writers. You can't even back up your own advice with hard facts about it. What you wrote sounds really inspiring, but I don't see anything in it that you can back up with data.
Giving bad advice is worse than giving none at all.
I have this book which has illustrations and brief histories of 50 women in science. The Barnes & Nobel exclusive comes with a poster.
Google for game theory and Cold War or read: https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzzle/dp/038541580X/ref=nodl_
If you're into stuff like this, check out this amazing book.
Wie gesagt, ich bin weder Heeresflieger, noch Ingenieur, noch Physiker. Es kann gut sein das ich mich vertan habe.
Die Brechung beruht auf technischen Daten die ich für den Apache Helikopter in diesem Buch gefunden habe. Für den Tiger hab ich die nötigen Daten nirgends gefunden, hab aber auch nicht lange gesucht. Solltest du die Daten für die maximale Neigungsrate finden, dann kannst du die Rechnung ja selber nochmal durchführen. Da der Tiger ist ein modernerer Helikopter als der Apache ist habe ich einfach mal angenommen, dass die beiden in etwa vergleichbar sind.
5g zu erreichen ist kein Problem für einen Helikopter. Ich fliege Modell RC-Helikopter und kenne Renndrohnen Piloten. Meine Modell erreichen im Kurvenflug um die 3g, bei Renndrohnen sind 7g an der Tagesordnung. Auch echte Helikopter können diese Werte erreichen. Das passiert aber nicht so oft, da Helikopter selten den Kurvenflug mit den nötigen Geschwindigkeiten durchführen. Kampfjets widerstehen um die 20g. Man verbindet höhere G-Zahlen vor allem deswegen mit Jets, da diese, durch ihre großen Reisegeschwindigkeiten, sehr viel mehr g im Kurvenflug überstehen müssen. Drehflügelflugzeuge (also Hubschrauber) unterscheiden sich im Grunde von Fix-Wing-Flugzeugen nur dadurch, das ihre Tragflächen sich drehen und gleichzeitig für den Schub verantwortlich sind. Die Rotoren eines Helikopters leisten aber die selbe Funktion wie eine Tragfläche. Um den Helikopter zu neigen ist es nicht notwendig die Blattstellung umzukehren, aber ist technisch ohne Probleme möglich. Ein Rotorblatt hat währende der Rotation gyroskopische Eigenschaften, die Helikopter zur Fortbewegung ausnutzen. Wie genau das funktioniert kann und will ich nicht in Textform ausführen, da das den Rahmen sprengen würde. Ich kann dir aber diese Videoserie empfehlen. Hier wird die Funktion eines Rotorgyroskops sehr gut erklärt und dargestellt.
Buddha vol.1-8
Prisoners Dilemma? though it seems more of a biography than a text book
A couple of books that focus maybe a little more on the people that developed game theory than the theory itself, but I'll throw them out there anyway:
>_>
I just started this. I'm kind of in love.
Relevant
she actually has a biography that's a New York Times bestseller by that name
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka, in 8 volumes. Although it's manga, the storytelling is sophisticated, not watered down for children.
Radioactive boy scout
amazon link
I enjoyed [Blue Highways] (http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America/dp/0316353299), but it's a few years old. Maybe something by [Sarah Vowell] (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=sarah+vowel)?
Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin
You like sci-fi, I suppose you'd enjoy learning about the first man to (almost) completely orbit the earth.
This book is fascinating.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Ants-Story-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0674485262/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348442082&sr=1-1&keywords=journey+of+the+ants
If you want to go further down the blast cap, this book will help.
Yes, she was first mammal to orbit the Earth as well as the first to die in orbit. She has a monument in Russia.
>On April 11, 2008, Russian officials unveiled a monument to Laika. A small monument in her honour was built near the military research facility in Moscow which prepared Laika's flight to space. It features a dog standing on top of a rocket.
Source: Laika
The first hominid in space, Ham the Astrochimp did make it back to earth safely.
I'd also say poor Vladimir Komarov.
>His spaceflight on Soyuz 1 made him the first cosmonaut to fly into outer space more than once, and he became the first human to die during a spaceflight—when the Soyuz 1 space capsule crashed after re-entry on April 24, 1967.
His death has been attributed to Leonid Brezhnev's desire to have a Soviet space triumph on the 50th anniversary of the Communist revolution. The Soviet space agency wasn't ready for the launch, but no one dared tell Brezhev. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, tried to have the launch delayed, but was unsuccessful, because others would not relay his warning memo to Brezhnev.
>The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel; its parachutes — though no one knows this — won't work and the cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his doom, U.S. listening posts in Turkey hear him crying in rage, "cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship."
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>This extraordinarily intimate account of the 1967 death of a Russian cosmonaut appears in a new book, Starman, by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony, to be published next month. The authors base their narrative principally on revelations from a KGB officer, Venyamin Ivanovich Russayev, and previous reporting by Yaroslav Golovanov in Pravda. This version - if it's true - is beyond shocking.
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>Starman tells the story of a friendship between two cosmonauts, Vladimir Kamarov and Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin, the first human to reach outer space. The two men were close; they socialized, hunted and drank together.
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>In 1967, both men were assigned to the same Earth-orbiting mission, and both knew the space capsule was not safe to fly. Komarov told friends he knew he would probably die. But he wouldn't back out because he didn't want Gagarin to die. Gagarin would have been his replacement.
Source: Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage'
> they're trying to make a biopic that's historically accurate as possible.
That's laughable. Even the part about him possibly having Aspergers is exaggerated and doesn't fit historical facts.
Hodges' biography of him paints quite a different picture of Turing and the events depicted in the film. That book was supposed to be what they based the film on, and I think Hodges was actually under contract for it, but they deviated a lot from his source.
Those who love to fly on helicopters I highly recommend to read the book from Edward Macy who was qualified to fly in both Apache seats: the gunner's front and the pilot's back.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-Parsons/dp/0922915970/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303078630&sr=8-1 Great book
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/037550351X
Radioactive Boy Scout?