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Stuff that's worth checking out...Recommended Books about Science etc. Where good ideas come from (easy-to-read book by Steven Johnson) Find in the nearest library Watch S. Johnson's TED talk Read S. Johnson's blog Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: an inquiry into values (philosophical novel by Robert M Pirsig) Find in the nearest library Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer (great memoir by Kathleen Crane) Find in the nearest library The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (book about nonlinear theories of living systems by Fritjof Capra) Find in the nearest library Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (book by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein) The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't (book by Nate Silver) Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics (books, Movie, Blogs and Podcasts by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner) Other cool ocean/ science- related stuff NASA's Giovanni is an easy to use interface that allows anyone with computer access to access and process satellite data. You can find some useful tutorials here Radiolab (fun Podcast about Science produced by WNYC) Discovery Atlas: Uncovering Earth (great series produced by the Discovery Channel; available on Netflix) Jiro Dreams of Sushi (beautiful documentary that addresses, among other things, overfishing; available on Netflix) Slippery when wet (a classic surf film; the first film by Bruce Brown who later made Endless Summer 1 and 2) The end of the line (documentary film about overfishing) The age of stupid (documentary film about global climate change) Darwin's Nightmare (poignant documentary film about an invasive fish- the Nile Perch- in Tanzania, and the dramatic environmental and social issues associated with it; watch it here) The Art of Science and the Science of Art http://artsci.ucla.edu/home https://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/resources/coloring_pages/pdf/aab_plankton_coloring_page.pdf |
