Book Catalog
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I have over 4,000 Books in my personal library. If your are interested I have an Amazon.com “bookstore” where I list a few of the books dealing with Cybernetics in general (and focused on my attempts to come to grips with the nature of viable systems) that have had a profound impact on me.
I’ve also started an online catalog on Goodreads (currently it includes about 1,600 of the books in my library), and I will slowly be trying to get the rest of my collection entered there as time permits.
I hope to have individual pages, in this blog, for the “best” in each of the major topic areas I follow, but in a meantime each of the tabs contains a few random entries from one of my favorite bookshelves on Bookreads.
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NASA image of the day
Launching Balloons to Study Space WeatherIn Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go? This NASA-funded mission is called BARREL, for Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses. Each balloon launched by the BARREL team floated for anywhere from three to 40 days, measuring X-rays produced by fast-moving electrons high up in the atmosphere.BARREL works hand in hand with another NASA mission called the Van Allen Probes, which travels directly through the Van Allen radiation belts. The belts wax and wane over time in response to incoming energy and material from the sun, sometimes intensifying the radiation through which satellites orbiting Earth must travel. Scientists need to understand this process better, and even provide forecasts of such space weather, in order to protect our spacecraft.› Read MoreImage Credit: NASA
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