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A Saturday's Worth Of Books

I thought it might be good to share books we are reading with the 13.7 community so here are a few of things on my shelf now. Some of these may end up as longer blogs someday.

1) Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields by Kerson Huang

2) Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel

3) The Brain Supremacy by Katheleen Taylor

4) The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll

So much great stuff to read!

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Adam Frank was a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture. A professor at the University of Rochester, Frank is a theoretical/computational astrophysicist and currently heads a research group developing supercomputer code to study the formation and death of stars. Frank's research has also explored the evolution of newly born planets and the structure of clouds in the interstellar medium. Recently, he has begun work in the fields of astrobiology and network theory/data science. Frank also holds a joint appointment at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, a Department of Energy fusion lab.

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