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Dylan Prendergast
Science Department - Physics and Science Research
Email: dprendergast@scarsdaleschools.org
Office: 291A
Phone: 721-2671
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Cool videos and clips:
Great science-related fiction:
Diamond Age, Anathem, Seveneves, and Snow Crash, all by Neal Stephenson
Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, all by Orson Scott Card
2001: A Space Odyssey; 2010: Odyssey 2, both by Arthur C. Clarke
Dune, by Frank Herbert
The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
Lock In, Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, and The Lost Colony, all by John Scalzi
Neuromancer and Count Zero, by William Gibson
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch
The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore
Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A Heinlein
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
The Expanse Series, by James S. A. Corey
Great science-related non-fiction:
Taking the Quantum Leap, by Alan Wolf
Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, by Richard Feynman
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, by Werner Heisenberg
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Norman Ohler
The Alchemy of Air, by Thomas Hager
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
