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Brilliant Analysis

Revisado: 01-17-24

Everything around us is something we take for granted. Everything that is great and magnificent starts out small.

Seeing how common these objects are and how their basic understanding has led to numerous marvels and discoveries is quite interesting. Empirical instances and prospective future initiatives.

Written so skillfully that a sixth grader could understand it.

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Insightful

Revisado: 01-17-24

Living in a time when these titles are becoming increasingly necessary.

Incredibly intelligent content. No sand indicates no fiber optics, no silicon, no digital electronics, no high-speed communication, and no salt indicates no chlorine….

There appears to be less likelihood of other countries innovating anything since a small number of countries will likely rule the world and create new things for all time. The development of semiconductor technology, batteries, conductors, and lenses in other nations will take a century or more.
There is no doubt that the new green energy options will disappoint environmentalists. Just as energy can only be transformed, not created or destroyed, so too does our dependence on renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and electric cars not ensure a carbon-free, sustainable future.

We live in a time when a wide range of materials are available, so any new findings will probably reveal hitherto unidentified phenomena that we can only hope to witness in our lifetimes.

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A Book for Everyone

Revisado: 01-17-24

We need more of such title.

Doctors/dieticians say do not eat this or that. But what to eat is a million dollar question which hardly anyone addresses. Each one of us has different metabolic systems, and so varied diets.

The hacks presented in this title helped me understand better into the diets. Our regular foods are starches, carbohydrates, sugars and proteins, all of which cause one disease or the other. In addition, there are many junk and high calorie foods available all around. We are moving from an era of starvation, malnutrition or insufficient nutrition to a world full of choices, what not to eat than what to eat.

The author has mentioned on the continuous glucose monitors (CGM). I am skeptical of it. It would be hard to identify glucose in blood from many other components.

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A Deceived Title

Revisado: 01-01-23

Purchased this title, believing it to be a work simplifying and narrating the power of Mathematical equations in Physics, for better comprehension, and appreciating its beauty thereof. However, I was sorely disappointed to discover that the title hardly was substantiated with facts and figures, and hardly there was anything that could elevate thinking to little higher.

I would strongly recommend that anyone looking to learn more about astrophysics should look elsewhere, and avoid relying on titles that sound too good to be true. If you're seeking genuine material to aid you in understanding astrophysics, I suggest that you look for more reputable sources and publishers.

And you do not need it at all when you already have a Briane Greene or a Michio Kaku title with you.

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I have treasured something billions of years old

Revisado: 12-24-22

I wish I had this title in 2012. Learning about the emergence of life from cooperative phenomena was an eye-opening experience. I always belived that by exploring the ways in which life behaves and interacts with its environment, we can gain a deeper understanding of the intricate relationships between life forms and their environment. However, the use of complex names and terms from my Biology teachers diminished my appreciation for the subtleties of life's intricate web.

Prof. Hoffman transmits the insights into the complexities of the natural world in a natural scientist's language, which is far more comprehensive than a Biologist's perspectives of outlooks. With the help of experimental physics instruments such as the family of Scanning Probe Microscopes, Fluorescence Imaging/Spectroscopy, and theoretical understandings on Entropy, Self Assembly, Cooperative phenomena, Order from chaos, random fluctuations at room temperatures, have all revolutionized bioscience and gives a feeling that cell is no longer seen as a simple, and an easy to understand structure.

Looking through the eyes of a physicist, biology teaches us to understand life from a new perspective.

The role of different cellular components following complex pathways to carry out different tasks for our survival, and all driven by so less "free energy" from the random movement of atoms/molecules at room temperatures, reflects the crucial role of biophysicists/biochemists in exploring the intricacies of such different phenomena and complex pathways.

Ultimately, this understanding helps me better appreciate the wonders of the inner life of different cellular components, interactions with the environment, and billions years of evolutions assembling all these together to make a whole life giving human bodies.

I am in a trance to discover that I have treasured something which is billions years of old, compared to modern day Archaeologists, who can go far only few thousands of years.

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Disappointed !

Revisado: 11-01-22

I expected the title to explain various sciences and scientific hypothesis, conjectures, laws, theories from many philosophical standpoints. To convey a concept, the narrator repeats the same sentence 4/5 times in different ways. Furthermore, the author seems to lack sufficient scientific conceptual basics to support or provide a solid foundation for Philosophy.

"Copper conducts electricity, and electricity is just one property of materials, so everything that conducts electricity might not be copper." This is the author's favorite example, almost throughout the title.

Disappointed !

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Not an Astrophysics Fan But Liked Tim's Narration

Revisado: 10-18-22

Like Tim's other titles, this is another tale-telling title, can listen to continuously never getting bored.

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Could Have Been Better

Revisado: 09-15-22

Seemed like most are from 'The Ancestors' Tale'. But a good combination of basic Physics of flight and evolution. But could have been better if it contained little more advanced topics and contents.

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A Practical Approach to Learn History

Revisado: 09-15-22

Man will die, but not be defeated. Those who think past as great and glorious, lose themselves in stories of victory, optimism, and miracles, this course is a must for them.

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A Practical Approach toward New Discoveries

Revisado: 08-25-22

In contrast to other popular science books, which provide information on "How Things Work", this title offers a practical approach toward science, the way it is done following rigorous scientific procedures, isolate facts from fantacy, searching for experts in different fields, coming out of one's own field of research and striding toward 99.---% uncertainty, but still those leftout tiny (100-99.---)% parts can unfold a 100% true reality on "What makes Things Work".

An Armchair physicist (most probably), Steinherd comes out of his comfort zone, intrudes into theoretical and experimental solid state physics, and then to geology, field studies, using cutting edge technological tools, finding experts in all relevant areas, and coming out victorious, is a tale and inspiration to many daydreamers who do not understand how hard science is.

Truly, an eye opener.

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