Bad Astronomy

Bad Astronomy

By
Philip Plait
Philip Plait
2002 • 277 pages

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103 books

Critical Thinking

MBonus
PB
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
The Irrational Ape
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Logically Fallacious
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

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30 books

Physics

Nowenen
Alexander
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Nature of Space and Time
A Brief History of Time
The Grand Design
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Thing Explainer
Time Reborn

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27 books

Science And Technology

djgreedo
DJ Allan
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
Why Does E=mc2?
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

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7 books

Other Non Fiction

marksmichaelj
Michael
Thirteen, the Apollo flight that failed
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
Spymaster
Difficult Men
Bad Astronomy
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

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7 books

Science

marksmichaelj
Michael
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Thunderstruck
The Pluto Files
Bad Astronomy
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Leonardo Da Vinci

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56 books

Year 2003

BetoM
Beto
By the light of the moon
The Witch Queen
Minority Report
Magic Time
Shadow of the Hegemon
Cuentos completos 1

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183 books

Nonfiction

CountZero
Count_ZeroSupporter
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
Reality Is Broken
The Elusive Shift

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40 books

Science

CountZero
Count_ZeroSupporter
The Hidden Reality
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
The Black Hole War
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Hyperspace

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101 books

Mine

chigh
Clair High
Ancestor
Seed to Harvest
2001: A Space Odyssey
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Mr. Pine's purple house

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45 books

Science

MelissaC
Melissa
A Brief History of Time
The Ancestor's Tale
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Magic of Reality
Cosmos
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

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75 books

Non Fiction

DarthMu
Matt
Scam School Book 1
The Nerdist Way
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair

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26 books

Science

DarthMu
Matt
The Grand Design
Death from the Skies!
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
Packing for Mars
Warped Passages
Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

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485 books

Science Nature

MBonus
PB
Forensics: The Science Behind the Deaths of Famous People
Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction
And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara
COVID-19: Everything You Need to Know about the Corona Virus and the Race for the Vaccine
COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One

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88 books

Nonfiction

novamoonlight
Teresa Horne
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Warped Passages
Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love
The INFJ Writer: Cracking the Creative Genius of the World's Rarest Type
Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

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55 books

Non Fiction

moopet
Ben
Obsessive Genius
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Uncle Tungsten
Death from the Skies!
On the Origin of Species

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23 books

Astronomy

eternallygeek
C
Roving Mars
Death from the skies!
Asteroid Rendezvous: NEAR Shoemaker's Adventures at Eros
The Sky Is Not the Limit
The Pluto Files
The End of Night
Rocket Girl

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400 books

Non Fiction

crgreenelantern
Courtney
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
Rocket Boys
Gus Grissom
Cosmos
America Back on Track

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103 books

Science And Space

crgreenelantern
Courtney
Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth
The Sky Is Not the Limit
Bad Astronomy
A Man on the Moon
Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond
Death from the Skies!
One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered

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66 books

2009

crgreenelantern
Courtney
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
A Bend in the Road
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
Pride and Prejudice

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227 books

320 Pages Or Less

HenriButter
Emil
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
American Wolf
H is for Hawk
Thirteen Days
The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
Treasure Island
A Cruising Voyage Around the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708 and Finish'd in 1711

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359 books

Nonfiction

Nowenen
Alexander
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Обезьяны, нейроны и душа
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Grand Design
No Logo

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23 books

Sgu Skeptical Picks

HenriButter
Emil
How We Know What Isn't So
Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things
Why Darwin Matters
Why People Believe Weird Things
A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism: Applying Laws of Physics to Faster-Than-Light Travel, Psychic Phenomena, Telepathy, Time Travel, UFOs, and Other Pseudoscientific Claims