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The Science Magpie
The Science Magpie: A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science | Simon Flynn
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From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen. Skip through time with Darwins note on the pros and cons of marriage, take part in an 1858 Cambridge exam, meet the African schoolboy with a scientific puzzle named after him and much more.
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julesG
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Thanks for the tag @4thhouseontheleft

Here's my pixeled version of #Top10OfTheDecade #NonFiction

I'm pretty sure not all of them were published in the past decade, but I read them in the past ten years.

@Cinfhen

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alisiakae That‘s one of the only Bill Bryson books I haven‘t read yet! 5y
ljuliel I see they hooked you, Jules 😂. It‘s hard to do this, but when you see others, you want to try it. 5y
julesG @ljuliel I was hesitating mainly because I thought I couldn't come up with ten. Then I realized just how many NF books I actually read within the last decade. Fiction will take me longer. I might have to break that down into individual genres. (I read too much.) 5y
Cinfhen Thanks for including all the links!!! I like being able to check them out😊🙌🏻 5y
ljuliel Yes, fiction is a harder list , I think. Nothing wrong with reading a lot. ( I don‘t know if too much and reading should go together. 😊) 5y
julesG @ljuliel Reading too much is not a bad thing in and of itself. Just means it's very hard picking favourites. If I only read 20 books each year it might be much easier to pick one for the top 10 than picking one out of 200. 5y
julesG @Cinfhen Thought it might be a good idea due to the pixeled pictures. 5y
ljuliel That‘s true. I had a couple of years that I read that many per year , but have slowed the pace quite a bit since then. I just mosey along nowadays. 5y
Reagan Stiff! I read that to my daughter when she was a baby! She liked when I read to her so I just read it in a mom voice lol. 5y
julesG @Reagan 😄😄 5y
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julesG
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Litsy was acting up on me yesterday. I might post a lot today.

#LitsyWalkers @kaye
#LitsyWalkersBingo

The street name means Magpie Street and hence it's a ✅Name in a Book for me.

The pictures show the cloudy sky just before the heavens opened and gusts of wind blew the rain from all directions. Luckily, I had made it inside in the nick of time. (not like yesterday...)

Kaye Sorry, I missed your last couple of posts ! Look at that sky today. Looks angry ! 6y
julesG @kaye don't worry. I missed anything that happened between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning (my time), because of the Litsy glitch. 6y
Kaye Yes it seems to have been on the blink .. I haven‘t had lots of trouble with it, although it was clogging a couple days ago. I saw several others have problems with it though. (edited) 6y
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julesG
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I've enjoyed every minute of this.

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julesG
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It's getting dark outside and I've cozied up with a #non-fiction book. As much as I love a good #fiction, I love learning something new about sciences, too.

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