Posts Tagged ‘Books

Peak by Chip Conley

In: Books

26 Jan 2009

I’m reading Peak by Chip Conley and came across the following quote that I’m moved to post, not because it is inspiring, though the book is, but because it’s gross. And that’s fun! He came from the University of Georgia seven years ago because he believed Genentech could help him answer a burning question: What [...]

An interesting update from the Google blog about their Google Book Search program. They’ve settled a law suit with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers (AAP) and are moving forward on their plan to scan a vast number of books. Access to the books comes in a couple of different, confusing flavors but [...]

Tom Root lent me an uncopyedited not-for-sale manuscript of Daniel Suarez’s (aka Leinard Zeraus) Daemon. Techno thrillers are generally disappointing. Anyone who has seen Swordfish or Antitrust will understand. And by the second page of Daemon, I was already cringing on my couch. The writing is oh so painfully self-conscious. He uses brand names to [...]

Ran across this on Cool Tools yesterday – a free, downloadable PDF Physics manual written with skill and humor. And at 1500 pages, thorough. How do objects and images move? How can animals move? What is motion? How does a rainbow form? Is levitation possible? Do time machines exist? What does ‘quantum’ mean? What is [...]


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