{"id":16645,"date":"2014-06-03T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/neil-degrasse-tyson-lists-8-free-books-every\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T10:02:12","slug":"neil-degrasse-tyson-lists-8-free-books-every","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/neil-degrasse-tyson-lists-8-free-books-every\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/12\/neil_degrasse_tyson_8_books_every_intelligent_person_should_read.html'>Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/azspot.tumblr.com\/post\/71749782325\">azspot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1.)\u00a0<em>The Bible\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/10\">eBook<\/a>)\u00a0&#8211; \u201cto learn that it\u2019s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2.)\u00a0<em>The System of the World<\/em>\u00a0by Isaac Newton (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/newtonspmathema00newtrich\/newtonspmathema00newtrich_djvu.txt\">eBook<\/a>) \u2013 \u201cto learn that the universe is a knowable place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3.)\u00a0<em>On the Origin of Species<\/em>\u00a0by Charles Darwin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/2009\">eBook<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/the-origin-of-species-by-charles-darwin\/\">Audio Book<\/a>)\u00a0&#8211; \u201cto learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4.)\u00a0<em>Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/em>\u00a0by Jonathan Swift (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/829\">eBook<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/gulliver_ld_librivox\">Audio Book<\/a>) \u2013 \u201cto learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>5.)\u00a0<em>The Age of Reason\u00a0<\/em>by Thomas Paine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/3743\">eBook<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/age_reason_0910_librivox\">Audio Book<\/a>) \u2013 \u201cto learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6.)\u00a0<em>The Wealth of Nations<\/em>\u00a0by Adam Smith (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/3300\">eBook<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/wealth_nations01_se\">Audio Book<\/a>)\u00a0&#8211; \u201cto learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>7.)\u00a0<em>The Art of War<\/em>\u00a0by Sun Tsu (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/132\">eBook<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/art_of_war_librivox\">Audio Book<\/a>)\u00a0&#8211; \u201cto learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8.)\u00a0<em>The Prince\u00a0<\/em>by Machiavelli (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/1232\">eBook<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/prince_pa_librivox\">Audio Book<\/a>)\u00a0&#8211; \u201cto learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read azspot: 1.)\u00a0The Bible\u00a0(eBook)\u00a0&#8211; \u201cto learn that it\u2019s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.\u201d 2.)\u00a0The System of the World\u00a0by Isaac Newton (eBook) \u2013 \u201cto learn that the universe is a knowable place.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4kt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}