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Then you will LOVE this: http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html

I mean it. Please don’t dismiss it. Essentially it says, that what you learned as “math” is as unrelated to math, as color-by-the-number is unrelated to actual painting.

And when you liked the above, you will have very high hopes for this: http://www.amazon.de/Measurement-Paul-Lockhart/dp/0674057554/

(I hope I could make you a little more happy. :)

If you truly believe that, I encourage you to study the origins of science and the beginnings of the so-called "conflict thesis" that you are taking as true. This book might be an interesting place to start: https://www.amazon.com/When-Science-Christianity-David-Lindberg/dp/0226482162.

Are you sure you went to a Catholic school? I went through Catholic school and was taught the Big Bang theory in Theology as what most likely happened.

Was also taught natural selection and evolution in Biology.

>According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (#337), the book of Genesis "symbolically" presents God's work of creation. In other words, the Biblical story of creation is like a parable in that the plot does not have to be literally true in order for the story to convey profound religious truths, such as the sequential and increasingly complex nature of God's creative activity. Interestingly, the idea of evolution seems to be supported by Genesis 1:24, which states, "Let the earth bring forth all kinds of living creatures." Genesis does not say that God directly created plants and animals in their final form, only that they came forth from "the earth."

-Source

I would throw in more stuff but I am lazy and at work.

> Now, robot slaves might be a good thing until they gain sentience. Then we might end up in a matrix type situation, if we're lucky, or a Terminator type situation if we aren't.

Read Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots. The real problem with robots is not that they will become self-aware but that they don't pay income taxes. It kind of leaves the public sector in the toilet unless we let AI become politicians.

This reasearch by political scientist Paul Abramson estimates half of the voting population cycles every 20 years. In stating 25% I am assuming a linear relationship but it does not seem unreasonable. A stark reminder of mortality to be sure.

There was a book called The Deep Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold that goes WAY in depth on this subject. There was a book called 9 Crazy Ideas in Science That Might Be True by Robert Ehrlichhat summarized the ideas behind it, including Gold's (as well as 8 other weird science things.) It's a bit dated (probably from early 2000's.)

Here's an Amazon link.

As a side note, this book is also where I learned what frottage is.

There's no need for personal attacks, and you're still blaming others. The sentiment is most politely and concisely summed up by Pollan, but it was not new information discovered in 2009. The same sentiment could just as easily be written as "Don't eat junk and processed foods, lots of fruit and vegetables, and if you're fat just eat less."

Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding was first published in 1980. The diet section starts by stating that all champions say that diet is the most important factor in their success. And of a 800 page book, only 30 pages are used to cover basic nutrition. In a book about people who diet as a major part of their profession, less than 5% is required to cover the most important part, because it simply is not that complicated. I don't know what you were reading in 1987, but there's plenty of nonsense fad diets still going around while the simple facts are available and have been for a long time, but there's no headline or new book to sell with "Eat less move more, don't eat junk."

Somehow, I dont think so...

Start with the Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J. Evans. In those three books you can read about how NSDAP and the nazi ideology came to be, what the the nazis wanted to do and what they did.

According to zoologist Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, bats were classified as relatives to birds until the 1920s.

http://www.amazon.com/Altruistic-Armadillos-Zenlike-Zebras-Menagerie/dp/0345478819/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422305812&sr=1-9&keywords=jeffrey+moussaieff+masson

try this

http://www.amazon.com/Fires-Plain-Tuttle-Classics-Shohei/dp/0804813795

One Thou$and (English Edition) https://www.amazon.it/dp/B07NQ12S6P/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_WOdECbDPANPN8

My first exposure to The Onion was actually through that book. Hard to believe there was a time when I could have found it in a bookstore before finding it online.

Well, I googled It. But now I'm even more confused.

The Case for Mars lays out a long term plan for terraforming Mars. Arguments can (and have) been made on if it will work, but someone has a plan.

And there has been a time in the past when argumentative, incorrectly informed, conservative douches were right although it doesn't mean that we aren't all screwed this time and it really is the doom of all life.