Reminds me of the opening paragraph from ‘States of Matter’:
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
I've read the giving tree recently and i must say, it kinda makes me angry, but not so much because of its sad story, but because i think that that is not a good way of life. you can't give away your life, i think, and you shouldn't look at yourself like a candle that is pre-destined to burn down through its course.
i believe that to truly live well, one must always live as if one had a very long life and must be sustainable in any action. this includes not giving away parts of your life that don't regrow. that is why the giving tree made me so angry.
I very much agree. It is held up as this wonderful parable of how you should live. It's the sort of thing that the powerful use to take advantage and abuse the weak.
This kind of puerile shit is bad for children and is just like a lot of the Jesus crap that gets pounded into kids.
Is that the new one? This spring i read the 3 original ones (had never heard of the series A friend turned me on to it) but I've been holding off reading the new one to make it last.
yes, that's the new one! it seems like some people didn't care for it, but i loved it and i thought it was a fitting conclusion to everything that came before.
fair warning the second half is.... well, it's something else. just roll with it if you decide to read it.
Reminds me of the opening paragraph from ‘States of Matter’:
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
That opening goes pretty fucking hard.
University Physics sucks but physical chemistry is all Boltzmann all the time and it's so awful
economics has a million texts by a million econ professors and a few good ones by greg mankiw