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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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Daniel J. Levitin is a hack. He is a living embodyment of the term used in the title of this review. There is no science here, only opinion and second hand knowledge that anyone with any amount of musical education already knows. He should read Debussey's essay "The Dilettante in Music"
and go re-invent himself. There is more to being an expert o... »
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The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed
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This books gives some good inside the garage stuff that answers some of the questions I had about why some things are done. I found that the author spends a good bit of time with somewhat extraneous discussions on why you see colors or biology lessons on why you hear and what a sound wave is. Otherwise the book would be 30% thinner.
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientist... »
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