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On My Bookshelf: Weird Life

Posted on 18 June 2013 by catholicsensibility

David Toomey’s smart and sassy book, Weird Life is a quite enjoyable read. I was paging through it about the same time I was reading The Hydrogen Sonata. Fascinating contrast. I’ll get to that. The author takes the reader through a … Continue reading →

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On My Bookshelf: The King of Infinite Space

Posted on 18 May 2013 by catholicsensibility

When I was a senior in college, I took two upper level math courses to satisfy a degree requirement for General Science. I was in way over my head in Number Theory. But I survived. Two of us were enrolled … Continue reading →

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On My Bookshelf: Are We Being Watched?

Posted on 14 May 2013 by catholicsensibility

I just finished Paul Murdin’s 2013 book, Are We Being Watched? The subtitle gives it away as a science book, not conspiracy theory: The Search for Life in the Cosmos. An astronomer pens a book that amasses planetary science, geology, … Continue reading →

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