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[beccaelizabeth]

Cleaner was here. Cleaner was not the usual cleaner. They did not put new bags in the bin and they did not flush the loo after putting hair and matches in it. Other than that things seem clean? I hope? New cleaners are stressful.

But Cleaner Day is fully achieved.

I started reading some of the 90s OU stuff. It's 20 years old at least and it shows quite often. But it's more interesting than staring at the walls, which is an activity that takes up far too many hours as is, so, reading.

I have remembered why I not so much liking studying science no more after high school. Because the pop science stuff, the podcasts and TV stuff, that's, like, whoosh! boom! Wow! Make a story! (maybe some maths). But the actual science science is like maths! measure! science! (maybe some story)

I can obviously see why they want to do it that way, because they're trying to teach you to go figure out more things yourself, the maths and the measuring is clearly important.

But I'm trying to read stuff that would make an interesting science fiction story, so all the numbers and measuring feels like a drag.

So I guess I need something in between the stuff I already know and the stuff for actual scientists. Kind of like with history where I want to know more than the TV showed me but less than the book that was mostly about belt buckles, even though I can totally see the usefulness of belt buckles to reading the past.

Eh, I can get lots of books and skim for the good bits.

Comments

[melannen]

If you want to try something for SF science that's sort of halfway between TV pop sci and university prep, I really liked the book "Physics for Poets" by Robert March if you can find a copy - it's written for people who don't like the maths but do want the basics they need to understand other stuff.