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It is a very fun way to learn about science. It was written with the goal to introduce science / rationality ideas through fiction and I would say it does a pre
by jack_pp 4y ago
It is a very fun way to learn about science. It was written with the goal to introduce science / rationality ideas through fiction and I would say it does a pretty good job of it.
I think the snark comes from "30000$" being spent to distribute a "free" book. If you think about it in terms of spending 46$ per person to advertise to a very select group of 650 people it might not sound so stupid.
- hoseja 4y agoIt is a fun book but I'm really not sure what "science" it teaches.
- jack_pp 4y agoI said it teaches about science. From the very first chapter : > "Mum," Harry said. "If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. There's a quote there about how philosophers say a great deal about what science absolutely requires, and it is all wrong, because the only rule in science is that the final arbiter is observation - that you just have to look at the world and report what you see. Chapter 8 introduces how to think about peculiar phenomenons through children games and so on and so forth.