Holiday Gift Picks I: This One’s for YOU!
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For all you folks that found physics more or less like chewing glass*,
give YOURSELF a treat. On Wednesday December 14, 2005 at 8:00 PM
in Science Center D, Professor Lisa Randall
will speak on “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the
Universe’s Hidden Dimensions”. It will, no doubt, be about her new book
by the same title. Go to the talk and decide if you want to give the
book as a gift. I don’t know if Harper Collins will be at the
SciCenter Wednesday night. They certainly don’t know who’s truly
important at Harvard. I had to BUY my own copy to review. Anyway, you
can buy a copy at the one remaining independent bookstore in Harvard
Square i.e. The Harvard Bookstore. [The Coop is Barnes and Noble now!
They’re outsourcing everything. 🙁 ] My review to appear.
*I stole this phrase from plama physicist David Montgomery. He was
referring to a standard and abstruse text on Kinetic Theory. I think it
was Cowles, but everything past Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood and
Yvonne is a blur. I have no idea where David stole the phrase, but I
bet he did.
