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Are there any books on relativity somewhat similar to Brian Greene's books... easier to understand to an uneducated pleb. I'm mainly interested in time relativity. Finally got around to watching Interstellar and the whole part about time being faster closer to the black whole really got me hard.
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>>9158100
Sure, but it won't be accurate. Pop science is for actual brainlets who want all the neat ideas that are really just reified abstractions for what is really going on. You would be better off reading some philosophy of physics
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>>9158100
Sure, Im not one for pleb tier science reads but if you must, Michio Kaku is your bro. Pick up "Beyond Einstein," "Physics of the Impossible," and "Hyperspace." All three are good entry-level "pop science" treatments of big questions in theoretical physics today.
If you want a non-pop science introduction, read Manjit Kumar's "Quantum." That's a phenomenal primer from the Blackbody radiation problem all the way through modern physics, and you don't have to be a mathematician to understand the nuances of it.
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Any feedback on The Problem With Gravitational Time Dilation & Human Perception?
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What does /lit/ think of /r/BettermentBookClub's reading list? Should this be the new Western Canon?
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>>9157986
No, try redpill-approved /lit/ instead
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>>9157992
>reddit spacing
you have to go back to the_donald
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>self help books
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
but seriously it's garbage "the power of now" and other shit that convinces jerkoffs they can fix themselves
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Who are the best poets, /lit/?
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>>9157885
white male ones
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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>>9157885
Nigger rappers cuz they gots real soul mane. It doesn't matter tho since all great "white" poets before cameras were invented were all black and the white devils whitewashed history.
Stay woke, HONKEY
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so anon, how is that dissertation coming along?
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>>9157763
holy shit Pepe is suicidal but smiling??? has he resigned to his fate? :)
We must save Pepe with meme magic hehe
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>>9157778
What are you 12 ?
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It's alright. I'm very excited that all my weird side interests in life are coming together to form one big exciting project I can throw myself into 24/7 and really identify with. Even if the dissertation itself only ends up overlapping with that by 80%, or being one big chunk of it, either way, I'm getting paid to do what I love.
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"God is the great companion, the fellow sufferer who understands"
Is he, dare I say it, our guy?
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>>9157568
There a lot of different people here with differing views. Stop saying 'our [whatever]' unless it's a pretentious faggot
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>>9157568
ANW said that? Didn't know. Process.. has yet to get an adequate hearing--
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Name some good Faustian /lit/
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faust
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>>9157281
recognitions
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>>9157281
It's not a story the Jedi would tell you...
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>tfw Dostoeskvy makes you a a Christian
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>>9157189
>being this easily influenced
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>>9157194
>never changing your position after careful consideration
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>>9157223
not being against women
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Britfags represent!
Live reading of The Legacy of Totalitarianism in the Tundra chipping forecast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onAgO62a3gA
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>>9157066
bump
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>>9157066
been seriously thinking of recording more bits of the book, there should be a coordinated lit effort to make a complete audiobook
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I am Doctor Kashmir, said Doctor Kashmir.
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Does anyone know of some good resources to learn about ancient Greek stress and intonation? I'm starting a text setting of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Pound writes in a letter that the meter is "Gautier and Bion's Adonis". I think it would be helpful to hear someone read a Greek epic out loud to get a sense of how to shape the vocal part but I'm having trouble finding anything.
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>>9157057
A good Greek grammar is what you want. Read the basic rules of quantity, then read the section on prosody.
Smyth's is considered the best English grammar of Greek and it's in the public domain.
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>>9157057
Sihler's Latin + Greek Grammar
The modern edition was expanded to discuss nearly all Indo-European languages and is kind of intimidating though.
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Pound is my favorite fraud.
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How do I get the time to read?
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>>9157037
stop posting frogs on 4chan
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>>9157037
nobody's that busy to not do anything they want to.
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Hey guys, real talk here, I can't find a decent mobi of the Gulag Archipelago, will anyone please provide a link? Thank you!
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Read the sticky you fucking cunt.
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>>9157000
I did, searched all over the place, found only crappy versions without a good index. You retarded asswipe.
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Will nobody help a fellow reader in need
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Do you ever leave notes as you read? Either by a posted note or writing in the book? I remember back in school they made us do this and thought it was silly, but I find myself doing it now. I'm not reading fiction anymore though.
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If you're in school and you have something against leaving notes in your books as you read you need to grow the fuck up because that shit is necessary
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>>9156848
>I remember back in school
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How can Europoors criticize repressed sexuality when their own culture doesn't even know what to make of sex? Continental humor uses sex as the punchline of 90% of its jokes, but how do they even find humor in sex if it's not something that ought to be hidden and curtained off? It's bringing what's hidden to light that makes things relatable and amusing. What we find funny is the taboo. But that's not the case here. Is the act of sex itself really so funny that it can stand on its own as a joke? And if that's the case, how sad that that is what sex has become.
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>>9156680
What a bunch of nonsense you just wrote
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>>9156680
>How can Europoors criticize
stopped reading there
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I was told some time ago when I made a thread about this book that it was worth it.
Well, I tried to read it and I now want to burn it.
It is the most pretentious piece of writing I have ever read. Literally. It is worse than my diary desu.
A stretched-out narrative filled with cliches and empty metaphors that tries to hard to be smart and cultured by referencing classical artists in a way that would be considered horrible writing in elementary school.
Do no bother with this piece of crap.
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>>9156588
It's just middle brow lit. It's quite cosy, gothic and pleasant to read but it never set out to change your world view.
The sequels a fucking travesty though.
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>>9156588
That's what I suspected when I saw it recommended in a thread a few days ago. I didn't judge it only by its cover (although that works too), but just look at that title: doesn't it scream pompous balderdash? As ridiculous as the phrase "pompous balderdash" sounds, I'd much rather read a book named exactly that than this tawdry piffle (sorry, I'm reading Nabokov's collected criticism and he keeps talking like that).
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>>9156762
Sometimes things get lost in translation. In context of the lingo used by the Spanish it probably doesn't sound as ham fisted.
I enjoyed it as a 16 year old, though that doesn't mean to say I'd judge someone for enjoying it at a more mature age. Some stories capture us, others don't. After all, there is a reason it is such a wildly popular book.
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Good zombie/apocalyptic/nuclear etc. books, also which sites are good to find the PDFs? 2017-02-25 04:31:13 Post No.9155864
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Good zombie/apocalyptic/nuclear etc. books, also which sites are good to find the PDFs?
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Read the first 2 books of Day By Day Armageddon, membership expired on Scribd and couldn't find the PDFs anywhere so I'll appreciate that too lol.
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>>9155864
libgen and bookzz.org
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I can send you my Minecraft Survival fanfics if you want