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January 21, 2009

President Obama: "We Will Restore Science to Its Rightful Place"

I get chills just thinking about Obama's speech. Some links to celebrate:

Science in the Inaugural Address! (Science)

Good Science = Strong Economy (Scientific American)

Stephen Chu is Super (Physics Today)
~~Read His Science News Guest Column from October

8 Questions for John Holdren, the New White House Science Adviser (Boston Globe)

How About Some More Female Physicists? (New York Times)

Baratunde Thurston on Being United (The Independent)

Obama Nods to Open Science (New Scientist)

More on the Stimulus Package (Talking Points Memo)

Can Science End Racism? (Wired)
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The Library

  • Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons by Serge Haroche
  • Voyage to the Heart of Matter: The ATLAS Experiment at CERN by Anton Radevsky and Emma Sanders
  • A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss
  • Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High-Energy Physicists by Sharon Traweek
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  • Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
  • Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics by Paul Davies
  • Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd
  • Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance by Dennis Overbye
  • Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
  • The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
  • Quantum Fish – The String Theory and the Search for the Theory of Everything by Dieter Lüst
  • Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos by Isaac Asimov
  • The Return of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
  • Brain Cuttings and A Planet of Viruses (both by Carl Zimmer)
  • Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall
  • Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence Otto
  • The End of the Beginning: Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang by Adam Frank
  • The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies
  • The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
  • Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad
  • The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty by William Byers
  • Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th-century Paris by Asti Hustvedt
  • The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
  • Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
  • Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21dt Century by Carl E. Schoonover
  • Shadows Bright as Glass by Amy Ellis Nutt
  • Massive by Ian Sample
  • Mythologies by Roland Barthes
  • Geometries by Eugene Guillevic
  • Opus Postumum by Immanuel Kant
  • Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe by Evalyn Gates
  • Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles by Paul Halpern
  • The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider by Don Lincoln
  • The Little Book of String Theory by Steven Gubser
  • What Darwin Got Wrong by Gary Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock by Henry Adams
  • A Natural History of Seeing by Simon Ings
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
  • Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon by Stephan Mattessich, Stanley Fish, and Fredric Jameson
  • Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound by David Rothenberg
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish! by Douglas Adams
  • Antimatter by Frank Close
  • The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars by Chris Cokinos
  • Bang! The Complete History of the Universe by Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott
  • Thomas Jefferson: Scientist by Edwin T. Martin
  • From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll
  • The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics by Julian Barbour
  • Kant and the Exact Sciences by Michael Friedman
  • Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science by Immanuel Kant
  • Physical Monadology by Immanuel Kant
  • Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens by Immanuel Kant
  • Fermilab: Physics,the Frontier and Megascience by Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb and Catherine Westfall
  • The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival by Marq de Villiers
  • Evolution: The Triumph of An Idea by Carl Zimmer
  • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer
  • Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Paul Dirac
  • Is God A Mathematician? by Mario Livio
  • Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology by Paul Buckley and F. David Peat
  • Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Adam Gopnik
  • Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
  • Charles Darwin: The 'Beagle' Letters by Frederick Burkhardt
  • The Constant Fire, Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate by Adam Frank
  • Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
  • The Lightness of Being by Frank Wilczek
  • There's A Hair in My Dirt! A Worm's Story by Gary Larson
  • It Came From The Far Side by Gary Larson
  • An Introduction to Quantum Computing by Phillip Kaye, Raymond Laflamme, and Michele Mosca
  • Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
  • Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard Muller
  • The God Particle by Leon Lederman
  • The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
  • The Universe in a Single Atom by Dalai Lama
  • The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
  • The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider by Don Lincoln
  • Exploring the Mystery of Matter: The ATLAS Experiment by Claudia Marcelloni, Kerri-Jane Lowry and Kenway Smith
  • Pluto Confidential by Laurence A. Marschall and Stephen P. Maran
  • Where Did Pluto Go? by Paul Sutherland
  • The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
  • Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark
  • The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
  • Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
  • Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
  • Violence by Slavoj Zizek
  • The ESP Enigma by Diane Hennacy Powell
  • The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind
  • Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
  • The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
  • Tertium Organum by P. D. Ouspensky
  • Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott