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Girard442

(6,866 posts) Mon Jan 15, 2018, 11:41 AM Jan 2018

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Looking for recommendations for a book on recent advances in cosmology. [View all]

I was watching Neil deGrasse Tyson on Colbert and realized this layman's knowledge had gotten pretty stale. Web page recommendations are OK, but for a week I'll be on a boat where the link to the Internet is, I think, pigeons.

TY in advance,
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Looking for recommendations for a book on recent advances in cosmology. [View all] Girard442 Jan 2018 OP

Not sure. NCTraveler Jan 2018 #1

You might try *The Unknown Universe*, by Stuart Clark... First Speaker Jan 2018 #2

I like Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, and Michio Kaku triron Jan 2018 #3

"Orange is the New White." L. Coyote Jan 2018 #4

"Orange is the New Dreck." Girard442 Jan 2018 #6

Kick. Iggo Jan 2018 #5

cosmology ... so not beauty school textbooks? left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #7

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