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crankster
Trad climber
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Mar 19, 2015 - 08:33pm PT
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Ulysses.
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Mar 19, 2015 - 09:12pm PT
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Hondo
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Mar 19, 2015 - 09:54pm PT
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This thing's about as dense as depleted uranium.
Curt
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Mar 19, 2015 - 10:05pm PT
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Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins! Bring some background to connect the bolts of irony...
... weighty tomes are not the only heavies out there!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Mar 19, 2015 - 10:33pm PT
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 19, 2015 - 10:54pm PT
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Curious George.
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Mar 30, 2015 - 03:36pm PT
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love gasoline i gotta agree on both those books...
also, Democracy and Torture by darius rejeali
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plasticmullet
climber
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Mar 30, 2015 - 03:45pm PT
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Warped Passages, heavy even though written for a non-academic audience. Lisa Randall is the bomb!
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JerryA
Mountain climber
Sacramento,CA
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Mar 31, 2015 - 08:21am PT
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"Downward Bound"
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Mar 31, 2015 - 11:03am PT
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I took a senior-level philosophy course at UGA in 1958, and the professor assigned us each a philosopher to write a report about. I can't recall which one I was given, but I couldn't make heads or tails out of his writings, which seemed vague, ambiguous, and self-contradictory. When I asked the boss about this he chuckled and said "Always read commentary about the philosopher first, then you may be able to understand what he tries to say."
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Mar 31, 2015 - 11:18am PT
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the Lorax
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rockgymnast
Trad climber
Virginia
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Mar 31, 2015 - 11:26am PT
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I have always been a math and science nerd. 40 years after I graduated from college, I finally decided I would read Isaac Newton's "The Principia".
I found it fascinating even though I could fathom, or grasp (at the most) only the main theme/concept of his theories; the rest (the math and especially the trig/geometry) was way over my head.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Mar 31, 2015 - 12:03pm PT
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"Always read commentary about the philosopher first, then you may be able to understand what he tries to say."
Funny, but true of so much, John. I wonder about the extent to which "The Emperor's New Clothes" describes our academic existence.
John
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jstan
climber
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Mar 31, 2015 - 12:50pm PT
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Warped Passages, heavy even though written for a non-academic audience. Lisa Randall is the bomb!
She gave another talk at Cern that was the next level above her "Warped Passages" talk. The idea being what the LHC should look for assuming there are extra dimensions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKejAW0IaDA
Though a climber her professional accomplishments are most astounding. She was the first woman to make tenure in physics departments at several of the most prominent universities in the NE. Look it up.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Mar 31, 2015 - 01:02pm PT
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The White Spider
Heavy man, heavy..
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Mar 31, 2015 - 01:03pm PT
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The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
Heavy man, heavy..
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Mar 31, 2015 - 01:25pm PT
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
It may be an exaggeration, but then it might not, to ascribe the fall of the USSR to this book.
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