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Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Book Review: Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far

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  Merlin's Tour of the Universe is a book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, first published in 1989 and updated in 2024. In it, Tyson answers lett...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Book Review: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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  Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a book from 2017 written by Neil deGrasse Tyson. The book explains some of the "big" conce...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Book Review: The Physics of Superheroes

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  The Physics of Superheros is a book by James Kakalios, who is a physics and astronomy professor at the University of Minnesota. The book p...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Book Review: To Infinity and Beyond

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  To Infinity and Beyond is (as of its 2023 publication and this writing) the newest book written by the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrass...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Product Review: Plastic Graduated Cylinder

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  I needed one for a Thermodynamics project. It is nothing fancy, just a plastic cylinder with measurement markings. It arrived quickly and ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Product Review: TI NSpire

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  I have almost all the TI line of graphing calculators including the 84, 85, and 89. The Nspire is very much overkill unless you are going ...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Study Aid Review: The Chemistry 1 Tutor: Volume 4 - Oxidation and Reduction Reactions

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  This is the fourth volume in Jason's Chemistry 1 series, which is designed to cover the first semester of General Chemistry. If you ar...
Monday, August 7, 2023

Study Aid Review: The Chemistry 1 Tutor: Volume 3

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  This is a continuation of Jason's Chemistry 1 tutor video series. In this volume, Jason mostly deals with acid-base reactions and titr...
Thursday, August 3, 2023

Study Aid Review: Ultimate Physics 3 Tutor - Electricity and Magnetism Series - Volume 2

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  I used most of Jason's DVDs to prepare myself for my math and physics classes before I took them, fill in material from lectures that ...

Study Aid Review: Math and Science DVD Bundle

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  I found Jason Gibson's DVDs when looking for study aids to use when I went back to school to get an engineering degree. I would use th...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Study Aid Review: The Chemistry 1 Tutor: Volume 1

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  I am a huge believer in Jason's DVD sets. I stumbled across them a few years ago when looking for math supplements because I was retur...

Study Aid Review: The Chemistry 1 Tutor Volume 2

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  This volume of Jason's Chemistry DVDs picks up where his first one leaves off. Going into chemical equations, chemical reactions, and ...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Book Review: Physics Without the Boring Bits

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  This is not a physics textbook. There are no equations (except for force equals mass times acceleration), no math, and no homework problem...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Book Review: Letters from an Astrophysicist

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  Letters from an Astrophysicist is a book by Neil deGrasse Tyson (who hosts Star Talk and the recent Cosmos reboots, as well as appearing o...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Book Review: Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

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  This book is a combination of the two seasons of Cosmos that Neil deGrasse Tyson hosted, his Star Talk TV show, and the Star Talk podcast/...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Textbook Review: Fundamentals of Physics

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  This is the physics textbook by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker which is the required textbook for many calculus-based physics classes. It i...
Friday, November 25, 2022

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: Interstellar

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  Interstellar was the first major movie written and directed by Christopher Nolan after his Batman trilogy ended. The basic plot of this mo...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Textbook Review: Radio Astronomy

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  This is a textbook for an advanced physics or engineering class. I picked it up to help me with a project for my radar engineering class t...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Product Review: Texas Instruments Nspire CX CAS Graphing Calculator

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  basically give you exact answers to almost any kind of mathematical function. Of course, it does not show the work, so if you are taking a...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Blu-Ray/TV Series Review: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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  Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 revival/follow-up to the 1980s Cosmos series created and hosted by Carl Sagan. This series was hoste...