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Popular Science Books Become Popular: Why The Rise In Recent Sales?

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First Posted: 09/07/10 01:06 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:35 PM ET

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The universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate, yet we still don't know what much of it is made of. If I had to guess, I'd say that most of it consists of books telling us that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. The soaring popularity of popular physics books is a publishing phenomenon.

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abbadabba
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05:08 PM on 09/07/2010
I stayed in a small trailer built at home with a Popular Science plan. Bisbee's Shady Dell Trailer Park, all vintage, all furnished with repros or vintage stuff. Should you go, save the dough and go with the "Homemade." If I had the skills, Napoleon Dynamite, I'd find the plan and make one for myself. It's the owner's favorite. You use a bathhouse for your potty and shower, so it's all good.
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02:42 PM on 09/07/2010
So like your in inter-galactic space with a Hubble with a spherical lens. You expose it for 24 hours and get an image of billions of galaxies. Then you come back to Earth and go to school, and the teacher says, 'Outer space. It's a vacuum. It's empty'.

The reason we need these books is because there are so many photons everywhere. Think of our communications systems churning out photons. I just don't get it and I've been reading popular science books for years. Cosmology - okay, all the big energy theories - ok. Photons? No. Scientists describe them. They do not explain them.
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nancynancy
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01:34 PM on 09/07/2010
This article was published in Britian. I hope science books are becoming as popular here in the US.
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typicalpol
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12:23 PM on 09/07/2010
Probably on the rise because people HOPE that unlike news sources, the results and "spin" won't be filtered by that of industry or "public interest think tanks". Not that those sources can't write books either.
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