Recommended! Recommended!
SITE of the month:
This site is marvellous! If you like space (which is a distinct possibility), visit it - it's really cool. It has stunning multimedia such as presentations (e.g. Hubble Deep Field) and great games like Way Out!. In this game, you help a cow (incidentally called Milky) get out of the Milky Way. It's a trivia game with three levels - Novice, "Pretty Smart about Space", and "AstroBrainiac". You have to get 8 out of the 12 randomly selected questions right to win. This may seem easy but I tried it and it's actually quite difficult - I've only got past once. I mean, who could have known when "once in a blue moon is"? (It's actually once every eighteen months). The latest news and pictures from Hubble are also on this site, so you can get up-to-date with what's happening.
Site posted by Space_Girl_Aliena Rating: *****
Know any cool space sites?
If you do, send them to the editor at space_age_editor@hotmail.com.You may also post your own review of the site. If you're lucky, you will see the site under "Site of the Month" in the next e-zine. There's a pretty good chance that many people will be trying for this, so your site may be listed under "Other Sites". Keep on trying, though, and you never know...
OTHER SITES:
www.space.com ***½ - posted by the Editor
BOOK of the month:
The Tao of Physics By Fritjof Capra
"...sets the reader thinking in an unusual way"
-New Scientist
The Tao of Physics is brilliant book exploring the surprising parallels between modern physics and the Eastern philosophies. It explains in detail the mind-blowing world of atoms that shatters common sense, the wise ways of the East, and how they are, in their own way, similar.
Each chapter gives in-depth information about stunning facts, or mindful philosophy. It shows how illusionary the Western view of our world has been for centuries, and still is for most people. However, atomic physics has brought scientists in parallel with Eastern philosophy. From particles that do not exist, but have tendencies to exist, to koans, which you can work out only by not thinking, the book is a true jewel - not to mention a key to one's true self.