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This book is considered too dangerous for public consumption, so it's hard to find paper copies, and most libraries removed it from their shelves in the 1960s. Nevertheless, many of today's chemists (including me) learned a lot about handling chemicals from that book.
http://www.geekityourself.com/files/The-Golden-Book-Of-Chemistry-Experiments.pdf
A more up-to-date (and presumably safer) text is this one:
If you want to learn electronics, this is the book to get:
Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery https://amazon.com/dp/1680450263
It literally goes through everything you need to know about basic electronics to be able to teach you how to make your own stuff. I only read through part of the first edition and loved it, so I’m planning on getting the second and actually doing the stuff by hand. I believe one of the last experiments is to 3D print a racecar yourself and create all the electronics from scratch to make it work.
You’ll obviously have to buy all the electronics parts (there’s guides in the book on how and what to buy) but if you don’t want to spend the time buying individual stuff online they sell kits tailored to this book. Each kit covers a certain number of experiments and the total will probably set you back about $200.
I saw Reddit threads recently (not specific to the book) about where to get discount electronics, so you could get the book and then look for the parts you need if you have time.
Actually this was me as well throughout quarantine here let me share a book I’ve been doing labs out of here most of it is labs you would do in a general chem course and it explains all of the safety tips required to complete all of the labs, I’m not sure I can recommend the last 5 labs as they use more dangerous chemicals (formaldehyde 30-40%, methanol, chloroform, barium hydroxide, etc.) let me know if that helps.
If you like philosophy, consider PHI/HPS 314 Philosophy of Science with Creath. It's a great course, there is zero homework through the whole semester except reading 2.5 books, and they're very easy reads (and one of the books is just excellent anyways, Weiner's The Beak of the Finch). There are 3 tests, which, if you do the reading and just come to lectures most of the time, you'll do fine on them. Creath is a great lecturer, the material is interesting, the reading is good, and it's an upper division HU.
If you're Barrett there's also a discussion component course you can take (HON 394 topic) to get honors credit for the class, and all you do in it is sit around with Creath and a few other students and discuss additional topics.
More elegant but not necessarily better
You should read The Beak of the Finch. It's about two scientists, Rosemary and Peter Grant, who have been studying a population of finches in the Galápagos since the 1970s. They are highly respected in their field. This book would give you a much better understanding of natural selection and evolution, and it's not a hard read. There are also similar, and more recent books, on the same subject. Stephen Jay Gould also explains this well, and he's a really engaging writer.
People study these things rigorously for decades in order to better understand how it all works. It makes much more sense to look at their results and conclusions than to just wonder about these things yourself, without the necessary background.
https://www.amazon.com/Beak-Finch-Story-Evolution-Time/dp/067973337X
Okay thats fair.; Exact category is often debated.
The less debated fields don't have a replication crisis per se: They have a falsifiability crisis.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/how-physics-lost-its-fizz/
I’ve been doing experiments from a book called “Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments”. It’s pretty interesting, though I wouldn’t say they’re all particularly useful. But it is a pretty good intro to several different types of chemistry processes.
Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture (DIY Science) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0596514921/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_WEH8CRP1KVSMZX67NMV7
>Yes, evolution takes place over long periods of time, but there are also hard start and stop points.
I'm going to need you to either explain that more fully, or provide evidence for this.
>At one point, one of our ancient ancestors gave birth to the first being
that would meet the biological criteria of being a modern human.
No. This simply isn't true. That's not how any of this works.
>That being was indeed the first modern human, and it was birthed by a non-modern human mother.
What are you basing this on?
> Individual organisms do not evolve into different organisms over the course of their lifetime.
Of course they don't.
>Evolution occurs because sometimes enough genetic mutations occur in a
single organism that when it is born it comes out as a different species
than its parents.
That's simply not true.
The changes accumulate in a population over a long period of time. That population slowly becomes a different species. At any individual point in time, the population looks pretty uniform. Over the course of 100,000 years? You can see the differences emerge.
A mother gives birth to a child of the same species. That child may have some small differences that don't distinguish it as a "different species". Maybe those traits get passed on to subsequent generations. That child grows up, reproduces, and produces children of her own. Maybe that child has further changes in her DNA - but she still looks like the same species as her parents. And on and on, down the genetic line. Everyone looks basically like their parents, and the differences between generations are fairly small.
It's the time that's the key. Evolution, after all, is change over time.
You should read up on the Galapagos finches to get a good idea of how divergence happens in the real world. The Beak of the Finch is a superb read, if a little dated.
This is a bit late to the post but hopefully this helps
this is a decent book 2nd edition of a book i liked that i got about half way threw
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Learning-Through-Discovery/dp/1680450263
There is also a kit that comes with the whole thing but its a bit pricy but for a book you can follow along with its nice.
(Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists To America)[https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-Scientists/dp/031622104X] is right up your alley.
This is a good resource that covers everything from equipment and safety to the actual experiments. https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Guide-Home-Chemistry-Experiments/dp/0596514921/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=home+chemistry+experiments&qid=1634943668&qsid=146-7916348-6126801&sr=8-3&sres=0596514921%2CB08DY3W8CL%2C1449396...
This book is pretty good and has a list of glassware and other equipment.
What you get really depends on what she wants to do. I just get my home lab stuff off of eBay.
It's a design for "Juno" from "Make: Rockets" by Mike Westerfield.
Excellent intro book that can largely carry folks from considering through MPR.
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Rockets-Down-Earth-Science/dp/1457182920
this guys books are pretty awesome for learning some basics too! (not fpv )
Take a look at Make: Electronics from the people who do Make: magazine. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1680450263/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_JH5YFb5RG7J5B
The Humble Bundle folks have also done a couple book bundles that include it & other electronics books.
Just want to comment, that physics dont have to be beautiful minimalistic which is also discussed in the science community and also found its way into popular books like Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.
Imo it is quite unscientific to rule out solution which are not "mathematically beautiful" or "simple and elegant". Or not searching for solutions which do not meet this criterias.
I found that the Make: books are quite easy to follow and things are well explained. You could start with this one: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Learning-Through-Discovery/dp/1680450263/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=make%3A+electronics&qid=1551011236&s=books&sr=1-1
There is also Make: More electronics and Make: Encyclopedia of electronic components volume 1, 2 and 3.
They come with lists of components needed for each book, and there are also ready made kits of components available on Amazon.
Elephants on Acid ( Link). I started reading again as an adult and started with this book. Its about experiments throughout history. There are some that you would be shocked about! The stories are short and it actually helped me finish the book. It's on Audible too!
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The fundamental thing about quaternion, octonions etc. is, they involve extradimensions of sort. The quaternion-based Maxwell theory anticipated quantum and scalar wave effects, which the current Maxwell theory cannot. So there are good reasons for utilizing the octonion math within contemporary physics. The opposite problem is, such a vector math is too dependent on right-angled Cartesian system. And once the number of dimensions increases, the things stop to become right angled anymore - the extradimensions violate Euclidean geometry too. The octonion-based theory will be still usable, but overly complicated, over-parametrized and as such suboptimal.
This is btw also the fact, which ruined string theory too and a general problem of every hyperdimensional theory: they apply only in flat 3D space-time following the Cartesian system and their validity scope is thus constrained to very subtle phenomena, which don't violate the dimensionality of space-time in which they reside too much (i.e. dark matter fluctuations). Even the best brains on the planet don't know what to do with it (a renormalization problem of switching extrinsic and intrinsic perspectives). As famous blogger L. Motl noted the octonion based math is the same case of fancy but void formal approach, like this one criticized recently by Hossenefelder - who indeed had the string theory of L. Motl on mind instead... ;-)
The fundamental thing about quaternion, octonions etc. is, they involve extradimensions of sort. The quaternion-based Maxwell theory anticipated quantum and scalar wave effects, which the current Maxwell theory cannot. So there are good reasons for utilizing the octonion math within contemporary physics. The opposite problem is, such a vector math is too dependent on right-angled Cartesian system. And once the number of dimensions increases, the things stop to become right angled anymore - the extradimensions violate Euclidean geometry too. The octonion-based theory will be still usable, but overly complicated, over-parametrized and as such suboptimal.
This is btw also the fact, which ruined string theory too and a general problem of every hyperdimensional theory: they apply only in flat 3D space-time following the Cartesian system and their validity scope is thus constrained to very subtle phenomena, which don't violate the dimensionality of space-time in which they reside too much (i.e. dark matter fluctuations). Even the best brains on the planet don't know what to do with it (a renormalization problem of switching extrinsic and intrinsic perspectives). As famous blogger L. Motl noted the octonion based math is the same case of fancy but void formal approach, like this one criticized recently by Hossenefelder - who indeed had the string theory of L. Motl on mind instead... ;-)
It’s “Make: Electronics”. It’s an excellent beginner book that includes hands on breadboard circuits along the way. Only $20
can anyone link to the magical pumps they're using that look like motors?
as a sacrifice, i offer this, a book of similar projects!
https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Weapons-Mass-Destruction-Implements/dp/1556529538
The newer Make: books are good too.
Make: Rockets: Down-to-Earth Rocket Science
Make: High-Power Rockets: Construction and Certification for Thousands of Feet and Beyond
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The Beak of the Finch is a fantastic book for non-scientists curious about evolution. I read it in high school and it's probably what led me to science in the first place.
Arduino, breadboard, two dc motors, motor controller, jumper wires, a hot glue gun, and some random arts and crafts supplies like popsicle sticks, cardboard, etc.
Maybe a book of project ideas, these look good:
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Learning-Through-Discovery/dp/1680450263/
https://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Project-Handbook-Practical-Projects/dp/1593276907
Even though I am pretty noob myself 'Make Electonics' https://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Learning-Through-Discovery/dp/1680450263/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488772658&sr=1-1&keywords=make+electronics+2nd+edition has been the one that has made the most sense to me. If you want to do all the experiments in it, all the parts would be around 140 bucks, but I find myself reading it just for understanding things. It doesn't just throw a circuit at you and say put this together and it works because of" ______": on one page. The author actually spends time on part or circuit for more than one page, or even third of a page, to explain why it works. Now if I could just find a book that can teach me to make sense of schematics, i would be OK.