Churning Madness

I just finished reading Gwyneth Cravens‘ “Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy“.

Gweneth Cravens is a writer and journalist, and was a anti-nuclear activist. She met and debated the merits of nuclear power with Dr. D. Richard (Rip) Anderson over the course of many years, and eventually one day Rip asked her: “Why don’t you go on an American nuclear power tour?” This book is the result of that journey.

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I somewhat recently read “The Colour of Infinity: The Beauty and Power of Fractals“; I studied Chaos and Fractals a bit back in MSSM, but in the past decade surely there has to have been advancements.

The book is broken down into 8 Chapters: several are by popularizers of Fractals, several are republished papers by active researchers, and one covers the making of the educational video. This video and book was endorsed / promoted by the recently deceased Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1957179570191443503

Came across this funny educational video done by the BBC. It is a simplified story of the Western World’s numerical systems, from the Sumerian to the Roman, from the Indian through the Arabic and into the decimal system, and finally its simplification into the binary system. It’s worth watching for some light-hearted and stimulating viewing.