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New on Project Gutenberg, 2 Aug 2011
New and notable ebooks on Project Gutenberg. Responsibilities (1911) by W. B. Yeats Rambles by Land and Water, or, Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico; including a canoe voyage up the River Panuco, and researches among the ruins of … Continue reading
Take with a grain of salt
Scientific American: It’s Time to End the War on Salt This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk … Continue reading
Happy birthday, Raymond Chandler
Happy birthday to Raymond Chandler, who was born 123 years ago today in 1888. There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and … Continue reading
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On Gutenberg, 28 Jun 2011
New and updated on Project Gutenberg. This time around, including: On the Trail of the Space Pirates (1953) by Carey Rockwell King of the Air (1907) by Herbert Strang Autobiography of an Electron (1911) by Charles R. Gibson On the … Continue reading
On Gutenberg, 21 Jun 2011
New and updated ebooks of note on Project Gutenberg. This time around: Jacob’s Room (1922) by Virginia Woolf The Meaning of Relativity (1922) by Albert Einstein Rambles of a Naturalist (1859) by John D. Godman My Bondage and My Freedom … Continue reading
Tagged airships, Albert Einstein, anthropology, California, ebooks, flight, Frank V Webster, Frederick Douglass, General Relativity, history, John D Godman, learning, Mexico, natural history, outdoors, physics, Project Gutenberg, reading, science, Sherburne Friend Cook, slavery, Spain, Virginia Woolf
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