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Anyway, I need another Commisario murder mystery. Might stop by Half Price on the way home tonight and see what I can find. Meanwhile, I'm reading random bits from Rovelli's "Reality is Not What It Seems".
Man... That's some icky-tasting stuff!
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Man... That's some icky-tasting stuff!
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414 ... S4v&rank=1
Sandworm is a Russian cyber warfare group, named from one of the various references to Frank Herbert's novel "Dune" contained in its malware.
It has been involved in the 2016 USA and 2017 French presidential elections, the 2018 cyber attack on the Olympic opening ceremony, and attacks on Ukraine. In 2017 one of these attacks on Ukraine caused $300 million damage by hitting almost all the computers of Maersk, the World's biggest shipping company. They were only able to recover because one vital piece of software needed to do so escaped destruction on one computer in Ghana because of a power cut. Without that fortuitous power cut the company would probably have been destroyed.
Scary stuff.
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Just completed:
"WHAT IS REAL?, The Unfinished Quest For The Meaning Of Quantum Physics" by Adam Becker, 2018, 370 pages.
Unfinished, indeed, and incomprehensible.
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I'd be open to reading LGBT romance. No reason why not.Butterfly Maiden wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 7:49 am Well, I don't think my current reading material will be of any interest to the guys here (or maybe they are )
Anyway, I'm reading lesbian romance novels on my Kindle. One of my favourite authors being Monica McCallan, so I'm currently re-reading six of her books I particularly like in that genre.
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Next, I'm trying to decide which to read first, "Turn Left at Orion," or delve into the thick "History of the Franks" by Gregory of Tours, written in the mid-6th century. I may end up undecided and read them in parallel.
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I am curious what edition of Gregory you have at hand.
It is a wonderful read...and an important work.
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I am"
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John Donne wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:54 pm I am curious what edition of Gregory you have at hand.
It is a wonderful read...and an important work.
I have the 1974 Lewis Thorpe Penguin edition, pictured below. I came across this work by watching the Yale online course "The Early Middle Ages, 284 - 1000" on YouTube:
That course uses the Alexander Murray edition, which the professor called "simplified" and expurgated for use in courses. He then said "the full work is much more extensive" and held up the Thorpe Penguin edition. I wanted the full treatment, so I went with the thicker edition. I hope that was a wise choice.
Just a month or two ago, I read "The Secret History" by Procopius, which that course also discusses. It opened up a fascinating new era of history that I had never explored. I've since delved deeper into Late Roman/Byzantine and Frankish history.
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This is a great read...a transitional period of the old Roman empire.
I am often reading more than one book at a time.
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Shubin writes about mechanisms of evolution, bringing up to date Darwin’s notion of change of function as the drving force, rather than a bootstrapping appearance of a novel feature enabling exploitation of a new niche. Fun throw away fact: if the DNA in every cell of the human body were linearized and placed end to end, it would stretch nearly to Pluto!
Regarding the cosmos, next on my reading list is The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body, by the same author. “How have astronomical events that took place millions of years ago created the unique qualities of the human species?” And of course What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner, posted in the forum under “We are all made of stars: The long trip from the big bang to the human body"!
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Following Weinberg, my goal is to derive the weak version of the Einstein field equations, the gravito-magnetic equations that follow from it, then solve Carroll's exercise 7.8.2, which is the Lense-Thirring effect within a thin spherical shell representing the distant universe. According to Weinberg this was solved by Brill-Cohen. All of this has been done long ago of course but there is still a lively debate of what it all means in terms of Mach's principle. The trouble with all of this literature is that each author has their own notation, everyone refers to others, taking jumps, which makes it altogether harder to collect and translate the various pieces than to derive it yourself thoroughly.
I have a decent understanding of Weinberg but often skipped over the details. At some point the rubber must meet the road by actually solving any equations that are not fully solved ("this follows from...", "it is not difficult to show that...", etcetera). I am getting the hang of tensor calculus by doing these exercises. Right now, it's very slow but it will speed up the more I learn. I am writing it up as I go in a Word document.
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Just completed: "Cause Unknown, The Epidemic Of Sudden Deaths In 2021 And 2022" by Edward Dowd, 2022, 203 pages.
Recommended reading.
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