life elsewhere

possibilities of life elsewhere. In the book "The 12th planet", Zecharia Sitchin, proposes that humans are descendents of the Nefilim - a superior race from Marduk, the 12th planet.

quantum mechanics

I read an interesting book by Sheldon Glashow: "Interactions". This follows his career in quantum mechanics. Everything you ever wanted to know about: gluons, quarks, electromagnetic properties, various laws of physics - but were afraid to ask.  I read this for fun :)

astronomy

My favourite book is: "END: Cosmic Catastrophe and the Fate of the Universe" by Frank Close. Everyone worries about man-made disasters. They pale in comparison to what the universe is ready to throw at us.

genetic manipulation

Mother Nature has been doing that since the beginning.  Bees cross-pollinate flowers don't they? Besides, would you rather have chemicals on your food (no one knows the accumulative effects all those chemicals have, by the way). Or would you rather have foods that have been modified slightly to survive more harsh conditions, as well as not be devastated by insects.

alien technology

"The Day After Roswell", Philip Corso, explains how some of the technology we have is reverse engineered from the craft that crashed in Roswell.

atlantis and lemuria

Atlantis. we've all heard about, but did you know that there was another civilization called: Lemuria. It was first proposed by an English zoologist: Philip L. Schlater. He was trying to figure out how the same form of lemur could be found in Madagascar, Africa, India and Indonesia. Lemurs can't fly or swim; they have to walk across land. So Schlater suggested that all of these areas were once connected by a vast continent, for which he proposed the name of Lemuria. A German naturalist, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, proposed that Lemuria was the "cradle of the human race".

time

"Time: A Traveler's Guide" by Clifford Pickover. Now, here's an interesting book - it's all about time. Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does time flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning and end? Various arcane subjects are discussed: space-time diagrams, light cones, cosmic moment lines, transcendent infinite speeds, Lorentz transformation, superluminal and ultraluminal motion, Minkowskian space-times, Godel universes, closed time-like curves, and Tipler cylinders. Now, I admit I don't understand most of that, but I'm reading it for fun :)