New book “The Story of Knife Steel” by Dr. Larrin Thomas

Matthew Gregory said:
I failed to mention something. I sort of implied it, but I don’t think I was clear enough.

This book is 500 pages.

You could take any five chapters of this and comprise a ‘book’, by most standards.


Table of contents:

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I'll option just the Table of Contents for a Netflix mini-series. Just don't tell Larrin Larrin or he'll want a cut.
 
ferider said:
There’s another thread on this:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/new-book-“the-story-of-knife-steel”-by-dr-larrin-thomas.1929707/

What’s a “post-doctoral degree” ? Just wondering …
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For most institutions the PhD is the highest awarded degree. A 'postdoc' is usually a couple years after the PhD spent doing research and applying for jobs. Too often these days one can do more than one of these before finally getting a faculty position somewhere. I was extra fortunate and did three...
 
Richard338 said:
For most institutions the PhD is the highest awarded degree. A 'postdoc' is usually a couple years after the PhD spent doing research and applying for jobs. Too often these days one can do more than one of these before finally getting a faculty position somewhere. I was extra fortunate and did three...
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I did one, then I joined a start-up. Was just wondering what “degree” the poster meant.
 
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Larrin said:
Whenever I wrote papers for school I would read through it multiple times and make corrections before printing it out. Then while turning it in I would look at the first paragraph and immediately find a typo. Now magnify that by a 500 page book and these are the things nightmares are made of. There must be a couple typos in there somewhere.
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The easiest way to find a typo is to hit "Send". You read it on different days, read it backwards, and any number of editing tricks to hunt for mistakes and they sit in the weeds waiting until it's too late before they rear their ugly heads.

I just got mine and once I finish the book on red shifting I'm reading It will be next on the reading pile.
 
Waiting for my copy to get here.... happy to see the guy get where he is now. Talk about prestige, and in something one is passionate about. His stardom is apparently bothering some people or "types" on the forum😕..... an ode to the man's success 😆👏👐👍
 
Matthew Gregory said:
My personal favorite from page 68…

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Oh boy, that's a terrifying ad. It reminds me of the "Radium Girls". The poor women who were in charge of using Radium to paint the dials of watches on the factory line with the newly found radioactive Radium that would make the watch hands glow. It unfortunately didn't work out too well for those poor girls. Human innovation can be a very scary process.
 
They're still using tritium for permanent glow in the dark materials. It sounds crazy, but if I had a certain amount of compasses in a truck, I would have to display a radioactive warning panel, as per the Dangerous Goods course.

Back then, they were using unsafe levels of radium and flappers were brushing their teeth with it, for glow in the dark smiles...
 
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