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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #840 on: June 09, 2015, 06:25:36 am »
I'm now reading Deadline by Mira Grant, which is book two in the Newsflesh Trilogy.
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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #841 on: June 09, 2015, 09:17:35 am »
Got a pile of classics for train ride home, and I started with 'Dracula'

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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #842 on: June 10, 2015, 12:50:20 am »
Psychology Gone Wrong  by Dr Tomasz Witkowski & Dr Maciej Zatonski

It's book that's meant to tell what is supported by scientific evidence and what isn't

So far it's covered scientific fraud, the problem of journals only wanting to publish novel studies over replications of previous studies to prove them right or wrong and the problem of getting raw data. The fraud that is Freud and psychoanalysis.   

Good review that got me to read it

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/psychology-and-psychotherapy-how-much-is-evidence-based/
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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #843 on: June 10, 2015, 04:53:51 am »
First Blood, it's what the Rambo movies were based on.
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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #844 on: June 10, 2015, 05:05:57 am »
Psychology Gone Wrong  by Dr Tomasz Witkowski & Dr Maciej Zatonski

It's book that's meant to tell what is supported by scientific evidence and what isn't

So far it's covered scientific fraud, the problem of journals only wanting to publish novel studies over replications of previous studies to prove them right or wrong and the problem of getting raw data. The fraud that is Freud and psychoanalysis.   

Good review that got me to read it

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/psychology-and-psychotherapy-how-much-is-evidence-based/

You might want to read Bad Science, and Bad Pharma. Both by Ben Goldacre.
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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #845 on: June 13, 2015, 07:06:15 am »
Psychology Gone Wrong  by Dr Tomasz Witkowski & Dr Maciej Zatonski

It's book that's meant to tell what is supported by scientific evidence and what isn't

So far it's covered scientific fraud, the problem of journals only wanting to publish novel studies over replications of previous studies to prove them right or wrong and the problem of getting raw data. The fraud that is Freud and psychoanalysis.   

Good review that got me to read it

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/psychology-and-psychotherapy-how-much-is-evidence-based/

You might want to read Bad Science, and Bad Pharma. Both by Ben Goldacre.

well I've moved to...

The Importance Of Being Innocent- Why We Worry About Children by Joanne Faulkner

I've only started so http://www.cambridge.org/nz/academic/subjects/sociology/sociology-general-interest/importance-being-innocent-why-we-worry-about-children

It does include the portrayal of naked children and controversy that usually follows
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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #846 on: June 19, 2015, 03:23:10 am »
I'm currently on Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's a really interesting look at what might happen if/when we colonize Mars.

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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #847 on: June 29, 2015, 07:14:19 pm »
Just started William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return. The series is a pretty interesting take on Star Wars and Shakespeare.

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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #848 on: June 29, 2015, 08:06:44 pm »
Freakonomics

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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #849 on: June 30, 2015, 01:15:51 am »
Freakonomics
Excellent book

I'm reading Frost and Fire a novel from the Shadowrun universe.


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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #850 on: June 30, 2015, 03:03:37 am »
My reading schedule is atrocious. I was working on wrapping up the Wheel of Time series for sometime, then I just kinda got burnt on that. Lately I just read somethings about dragons or dinosaurs and I seem to be happy, haha.
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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #851 on: June 30, 2015, 09:03:49 pm »
I'm similar. I go through fits and stops of reading; sometimes I read loads and then I won't properly read for months.

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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #852 on: June 30, 2015, 11:18:11 pm »
M.G. Harris - Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One: Black Horizon

Pretty solid action-adventure, with great little nods to Gerry's previous works too.
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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #853 on: July 03, 2015, 11:22:39 pm »
Nisioisin - Death Note Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

Borrowing it from a friend.
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Re: What are you currently reading?
« Reply #854 on: July 05, 2015, 02:08:51 pm »
The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer