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“Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O”
― The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
― The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11
“Consistent with Martin Klaproth’s inspiration in 1789 to link his discovery of a new element with the recent discovery of the planet Uranus and with McMillan’s suggestion to extend the scheme to Neptune, Seaborg would name element 94 for Pluto, the ninth planet outward from the sun, discovered in 1930 and named for the Greek god of the underworld, a god of the earth’s fertility but also the god of the dead: plutonium. *”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer’s vocabulary—Fermi was only then inventing that specialty—but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“It is wrong,” he told his colleagues repeatedly, “to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is”—which is the territory classical physics had claimed for itself. “Physics concerns what we can say about nature.”290”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.2 Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Kunal Datta’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kunal Datta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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633 books
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192 books
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258 books
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246 friends
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