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eldritchrites (33)in #mnemonics • 5 years ago
The art of Memory for Fun and Profit
(Note, this post is copied from my website, Go there if you want to read the article with decent formatting) I'm sure you've had the embarrassing experience of asking someone…
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eldritchrites (33)in #self-help • 7 years ago
Ten ideas a day and their uncommon benefits
(Copied from my blog, At the end of July I read an audio-book of James Altucher's "Choose yourself: Be happy, make millions and live the dream." It consisted largely of little…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 7 years ago
Book review: The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
“The Millionaire Fastlane” by MJ Demarco is one of the best books I’ve read this year. The premise of the book is that most of us are taught to achieve wealth in an…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 7 years ago
Book Review: "Bioprocess Engineering Principles" by Pauline M. Doran
No one should be writing college textbooks. This is especially true in the sciences. This does not mean that colleges should stop using textbooks nor that students should stop…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 7 years ago
Book Review: "Louis Pasteur" by Albert Keim
This is an excellent biography for those interested in the history of biology. It discusses the life of Louis Pasteur and his struggles that culminated in several major…
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eldritchrites (33)in #chemistry • 7 years ago
How to Discover An Element
The alchemists thought about elements very differently from us. They believed that there were four elements: Fire, Water, Earth and Air, but unlike us, they saw the element more…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 7 years ago
Book Review: "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" by Donella H. Meadows
This book is pretty self-explanatory. It's about systems, they ways they can surprise us, and the proper way to think about them so they can work in our favour. Everything with…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 7 years ago
Book Review: "Vonu: The Search for Personal Freedom" by Rayo
(Note, image borrowed from the Vonu Podcast) This is an interesting book, and is rapidly making Loompanics my favourite publisher, despite the fact that they went out of…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 7 years ago
Book Review: "Cybernetics: Second Edition: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine" by Norbert Wiener
People don't often know the origin of Cybernetics, but it started as a branch of control and communication engineering. It's foundational revelation is the principle that, when…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 8 years ago
Book Review: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass
This, as far as I am aware, is the most complete of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies. His previous ones were mainly about his time in slavery. Frederick Doulgass has lived…
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eldritchrites (33)in #technology • 8 years ago
Biopunk Lab Update 08/28/17, but mainly Fascinating Articles
Monday 08/28/17. I made zero progress so far on the lab construction, but I made a small amount of progress on my essay, and I read four short articles. One of the things holding…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 8 years ago
Book Review: "The New Psycho-Cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz, M.D.
Get the Book Here The primary theme of this book is the individual's self image, the ways in which the self-image, and the natural tendency to conform to the self-image…
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eldritchrites (33)in #books • 8 years ago
2x Book Review: Experiments on Different Kinds of Air and Radioactive Substances
Experments on Air and Radioactive Substances By Joseph Priestly and Marie Curie, Respectively This review is special, as it is of two great works instead of one. The…
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eldritchrites (33)in #science • 8 years ago
Book Review: The Biotechnology of Cannabis Sativa by by Sam R. Zwenger
A friend at the Minneapolis DiyBio meetup group suggested I read this book, and now I see why. This book fills very special niche within the current ecosystem of texts on…
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eldritchrites (33)in #science • 8 years ago
Projects Update, week of 08/0/17 - 08/14/17
Monday 08/14/17. The goals that I had set for the past week were: Read one book and write one book review Finish the first draft of my August Essay: "Why I am an…
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eldritchrites (33)in #business • 8 years ago
Book Review: The autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
The autobiography of Andrew Carnegie tells one story about Carnegie's life after another starting from childhood and ending with his meeting of the German Emperor. Some…
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eldritchrites (33)in #business • 8 years ago
Book Review: "The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business" by Josh Kaufman
I first heard about this book when reading "The first 20 hours" by the same author (also a very good book). The main premise of "The Personal MBA" is that any individual could…
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eldritchrites (33)in #bookreview • 8 years ago
"How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading" by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
Books are important tools for the mind, and since I was planning on reading a large number of books this year (and after a couple of recommendations) I decided I would start with…
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eldritchrites (33)in #intro • 8 years ago
Intro to my blog (copied from my website www.biochemist.me)
Dear visitor, I wish to share with you the nature of this blog, what you will find here, it's plans, and the schedule for it coming up. It was originally intended to be used as…
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