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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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"An accessible and extremely well-written exploration of the deep waters of cosmology, astrophysics, and exobiology."?Kirkus Reviews? Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, ?Origins? explains the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. From the first image of a galaxy birth to Spirit Rover's exploration of Mars, to the discovery of water on one of Jupiter's moons, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct a galvanizing tour of the cosmos with clarity and exuberance.
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state🎵

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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Tyson is a great science communicator, as always.

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BillBlume
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One of the books that influenced my current work-in-progress is Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson, so I decided to go through his earlier book with Donald Goldsmith called Origins to see if anything there might offer more inspiration before my recent writing trip to the Porches. Honestly, it turned out to be more of a refresher of what I got from the other book but still good stuff. #science #origins #AmWriting

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bookandcat
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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#audiowalk time with Neil deGrasse Tyson! At this time tomorrow I'll be in sunny Florida on vacation ❤️❤️

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tysephine
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Finished my audiobook on the way home from work today. It's a pretty interesting overview of the big theories in astrophysics. The first chapter was almost verbatim Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Once we got past that, Origins goes deeper into the major theories and hypotheses. All in all an interesting read.

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tysephine
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It's my favorite (read: most hated) time of the year - apartment inspection! Which means a giant spring cleaning for me today. I'm listening to my audiobook and reevaluating my life choices.

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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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An attempt to explain humanity

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And since I‘m on a roll with my science daily posts, I‘ll have to go with 14 billion years for Nov 14th for #NovemberByTheNumbers

EchoLogical I saw it 14 minutes after you posted it! 6y
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Sweettartlaura
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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A NDT book read by someone other than NDT?!?!? Inconceivable!!! What a dirty trick😫

LauraJ Agreed! 7y
AnnaDesourdy Agreed 🙄 not pleased but listening anyway 7y
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
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Book 11 in #BooksToReadDuringATrumpPresidency... Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution.

Because we should understand where we came from and what's at stake.

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ComradeMao
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2016, Book 45 "Self-centeredness bred into our bones by our evolution and experience on Earth has led us naturally to focus on local events and phenomena in the retelling of most origin stories. However, every advance in our knowledge of the cosmos has revealed that we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe."

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ComradeMao
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Rainy bus journey with a book. :)

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ComradeMao
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Wheeeeee! New read!