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BOTTOM LINE: Benford is a scientist and it shows in his writing.
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BOTTOM LINE: Benford is a scientist and it shows in his writing.
January 2009 2009
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BOTTOM LINE: This book by first-time author J.W. Benford is a book I really wanted to like, however there are enough flaws that keep it from being a book I think will have broad appeal.
May 2008 2008
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Becoming Stewards of Our World, The Great Theme of the 21st Century, Part One by Gregory Benford, is an eye-opening environmentalist essay with charts.
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BOTTOM LINE: This book by first-time author J.W. Benford is a book I really wanted to like, however there are enough flaws that keep it from being a book I think will have broad appeal.
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So ... it seems to me that SF as I see it, while not as exclusively Rationalist as the Scientistic Fiction I think Benford is championing, is definitely on-board with the whole Defence-of-the-Enlightenment thing.
The Ghetto Within The Ghetto Hal Duncan 2005
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So ... it seems to me that SF as I see it, while not as exclusively Rationalist as the Scientistic Fiction I think Benford is championing, is definitely on-board with the whole Defence-of-the-Enlightenment thing.
Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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Agent Benford is a fan of the band and wore a T-shirt featuring this album’s artwork to an undercover operation — infiltrating an underground club catering to “ghosts,” people in the FF universe who didn’t see anything in their flash forward and thus believe they are destined to die before that date.
Doc Jensen geeks out on 'FlashForward': Follow the clues; crack the mystery! (maybe) | EW.com 2009
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Both men were clued in to what's now known as Benford's Law by logarithm books, tools used frequently before calculators by engineers and physicists.
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Such short, targeted blips, dubbed Benford beacons, should be the targets of SETI efforts,
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