Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!yynet.tama.tokyo.jp!Q.T.Honey!enews.sgi.com!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: jupiter_scientific2004@yahoo.com (jsp) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.meta,dc.smithsonian,alt.folklore.science,fj.sci.misc,z-netz.wissenschaft.allgemein Subject: A Short History of Nearly Everything plus more Date: 12 May 2004 09:16:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 38 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.28.164 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1084378580 28635 127.0.0.1 (12 May 2004 16:16:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.sci.misc:29 An informative review of Bill Bryson's best-seller "A Short History of Nearly Everything" can be found at http://www.jupiterscientific.org/review/shne.html For earlier book reviews that inform, educate and entertain, see http://www.jupiterscientific.org/review/index.html In his book, Bryson poses the question, "How many of Shakespeare's atoms are there in each of us?" For the answer, see http://www.jupiterscientific.org/review/shnecal.html which appears as a new report at http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/index.html Here are some other developments at Jupiter Scientific: (1) The Virtual Astronomer at http://www.jupiterscientific.org/virtualastronomer/index.html has been completed. In particular, the page http://www.jupiterscientific.org/virtualastronomer/bestobjects.html, which contains the best astronomy images on the web, is now available. It is a truly extraordinary collection. (2) About 20% of the content of the out-of-print book "The Bible According to Einstein" is now online at http://www.jupiterscientific.org/science/baeind.html with more of it expected to be posted in the future. -------------------------------------------------------------- Jupiter Scientific -- dedicated to the promotion of science and scientific education through books, the internet, and other means of communication http://www.jupiterscientific.org \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\