12/2/20 review of the book The Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku

Here is the link to my December 2, 2020, Twitter thread review of the book The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, by Michio Kaku.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

11/24/20 review of the book The Collapsing Universe, by Isaac Asimov

Here is the link to my November 24, 2020, Twitter thread review of the book The Collapsing Universe, by Isaac Asimov.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

9/24/17 review of book The Analysis of Matter, by Bertrand Russell

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the book The Analysis of Matter, by Bertrand Russell.

The thread gives a summary of the book, some context on my experience of Russell's work, and my opinions about Russell, Euclidean geometry, and post-relativity physics. The thread discusses concepts in the book such as the matter, space, and time; finding predictable effects in physics; and perception and physical theory. I discuss some of my own thoughts, after having read the book, about the history of physics in relation to this book, the history of Russell's works in relation to this book, and the idea of physics as a logically open system.

10/3/12 and 10/31/12 reviews of books by Arthur C. Clarke -- MY FIRST TWITTER REVIEW???

Hello everybody! As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm going back to the very beginning of my Twitter to find my earliest reviews.

This single tweet appears to be my very first book review. On October 3, 2012, I mention How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village, by Arthur C. Clarke.

Here's the tweet:

Finished How the World was One, by Arthur C. Clarke. Good history of telecommunications. But satellite part could have been more historical.

On October 31, 2012, I reviewed Clarke's book Astounding Days: The Science Fictional Autobiography.

At this time, my reviews weren't in thread form. They were separate tweets. To make things easier to read, I'll put all the tweets in this post.

T1. Finished reading Astounding Days by Arthur C. Clarke. Kind of a history of Astounding Stories magazine's effect on Clarke's thought.

T2. Astounding Days moves from the cheesy beginnings of Astounding Stories magazine, through the age of great storytellers, including Clarke.

T3. Astounding Days inspires me to read John W. Campbell, Murray Leinster, Victor Rousseau, William Corliss, Stanley Weinbaum, and E.E. Smith.

T4. In Clarke's Astounding Days there are plenty of stories of failed soothsayers and naysayers, as well as of those whose visions were correct.

T5. Interesting, in Astounding Days, how wrong people were about war- and space-rockets and how prescient they were about U-235's potential.

T6. Good Astounding Days quote: "For good or ill, the fantasies of my youth had become the international politics of my adult life."

1/12/15 review of the book Birth of the Pill, by Jonathan Eig

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of The Birth of the Pill, by Jonathan Eig.

My Twitter thread review sees The Birth of the Pill, the story of the invention of the birth control pill, as a story of scientific teamwork. It discusses the importance of the pill to women's rights. It discusses some key figures in the work. It discusses some of the book's interesting biological and engineering insights. And it points to some other interesting works worth reading.

Here is a link to Jonathan Eig's book The Birth of the Pill, on the W.W. Norton website.

Also, I bought this book from the Tattered Cover Book Store, a bookstore chain in the Denver metro area.