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Numbers are everywhere

I've always been terrible at maths, didn't do well with it at school and still struggle to this day with anything beyond basic adding and subtracting. However, that doesn't stop me being completely obsessed and fascinated by it all. For some years now I've become obsessed with physics and the maths that goes with it. I took to reading a lot of pop science books starting of course with Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," which I have now read more than once and still don't quite understand it all, but hey. What I do love though is when something does click and my inferior mind manages to comprehend and understand some element of it, the joy, satisfaction and sheer fascination is incredibly rewarding. What of the greatest book titles ever is Richard Feynman's "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" because learning something new and understanding it is a pleasure and oh so rewarding. I'm in that position where the subjects that bored ...

When you thought they couldn't make something worse than Star Trek V...

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I have yet to see Star Trek Beyond, and I now doubt I will. I was dubious after the trailers and I had my reservations when I heard the director was best known for Fast and Furious film(s). Today I saw this poster with Captain Kirk (I believe) pulling a wheelie on a motorbike....! NO! Just No! I mean seriously? Do they not "get" Star Trek. Plus Chris Pine's comments that you can't make cerebral Star Trek in this day and age. I liked you Chris, I was going to give you a chance as Kirk after Star Trek 2009... *Sigh* I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.