Science For Hippies – a new book and blog by Tom Thumb
Science For Hippies is a e book and a blog site by Tom Thumb, founder of Street Junky, which will be a manual to science and crucial considering for non secular people today.
If this sounds like a deserving challenge to you then you can demonstrate your support by pre-purchasing a duplicate of the e book!
And you can read the first articles or blog posts in excess of at http://www.scienceforhippies.com
Why does the earth require this e book?
If this current lockdown knowledge has taught us just about anything it is that the earth is heading outrageous. Many have shed have faith in in gurus and just do not know what to think any additional.
Individuals hurl one-way links at each individual other on social media like ninja stars and there are so several ‘alternative facts’ that the reality gets shed along the way.
There are several debunking and simple fact checking websites out there but only tricky-main skeptics take a look at them. The language of science is normally inaccessible and dismissive to the uninitiated.
So I want to produce Science For Hippies to offer a simple, friendly manual to what science and crucial considering are all about. The e book will explore the scientific strategy, cognitive biases, the takes advantage of and restrictions of instinct and deal with popular problems about funding and trustworthiness.
The e book will not present comprehensive breakdowns of why unique conspiracy theories are not real. No a single likes to be told why they are incorrect (and specifically not in element!). As a substitute we’ll look at how can we know just about anything at all? Not what to believe but how.
And that can aid make the earth a improved spot to live in.
Why increase money for this e book?
I’ll be trustworthy: I assumed I’d sooner promote a kidney than do a crowdfunding campaign. I find it excruciatingly awkward to talk to anyone for money.
I’m an experienced writer, however, and believe that I can produce a e book which is really worth reading. So in this article you can order your duplicate of the e book in advance and I have something to live on in the meanwhile.
The reality is, however, I’ll produce the e book whether I attain the target or not – it will just consider a great deal more time!
And if there is momentum at the rear of this campaign then I can also make video clips and podcasts to accompany the chapters. There will also be a blog site exactly where you can see the ongoing get the job done and I’d like this to be the seed for a movement to reconcile science with spirituality.
To be trustworthy, if you are currently the type of human being who reads science of a normal foundation this e book will not instruct you a great deal. But do not you know 1 or 2 (or fifty!) people today who could really do with mastering the fundamentals?
Why ought to I produce Science For Hippies?
I applied to think a great deal of…interesting items.
But then I read and read and read and identified that awesome superpower that science bestows: the skill to alter my head. I realized to recognise the flaws in personal considering and realized how science tends to make the earth a additional magical spot, not considerably less.
I’ve published 5 publications and so I know how to create framework and narrative, how to edit and craft a bunch of feelings and stories into something really worth reading. And I’ve currently published a great deal about option culture.
You can download in this article for no cost my e book about the Rainbow Gatherings – rainbow gatherings are type of a thirty day period-long autonomous gathering of no cost spirits in isolated areas across the earth.
Or you can to http://www.tomthumb.org to see other illustrations of my storytelling.
And I’d really like your feedback. Most likely alongside one another we can help restore some explanation to a earth that requires it additional now than ever before.