Books Noted

• QE 514.D47 1988 Chemical Cycles in the Evolution of the Earth

• QE 514.F75 2011 Frontiers in Geochemistry

• QH 327.F548 2008 Fitness of the Cosmos For Life

• This is about tuning of universal constants, for the chemistry of life. Nothing significant about our particular planet, star, or solar system.

• YA 510 PASK 2015 Great Calculations by Colin Pask

• Amusing but time consuming.

• 301.31 VAI 2013 Triumphs of Experience by George E. Vaillant

• Mildly interesting - how Harvard graduates have faired in life, multiple lifetime study

• 363.3251 MUE 2016 Chasing Ghosts by John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart

• The security state is far more costly, damaging, and distracting than terrorist damage

• 153.4 HAR 2012 50 popular beliefs that people think are true by Guy P. Harrison

• Dumb things people think when they don't think - #19 Television news is interesting, much of the rest is "television noise". No "tough" questions involving character

• 509.173 PRI 2011 A Professor, a President, and a Meteor The Birth of American Science, by Cathryn J. Prince (CJP)

• Benjamin Silliman investigates Weston Connecticut Meteor of 1807, promotes science (chemistry and geology) at Yale, launches "The American Journal of Science"
• p63 CJP quotes chemist Jabir ibn Hayyan: "... conduct experiments ... mayest acquire knowledge"
• p195 CJP paraphrases Flight to Arras, 1942 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "you are the knot to which my soul is tied."

• 509.1749 ALK 2011 The House of Wisdom How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance, by Jim Al-Khalili (JAK) ,.