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Tauriq on eSkeptic

Roy Natian - October 15th, 2008 in Media 0 votes Vote Up! Vote Down!

I’m pleased to say our very own writer, Tauriq, is the featured writer of this week’s eSkeptic from the Skeptics Society. Tauriq wrote a review of Michio Kaku’s book Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel. (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2008, ISBN 9780715999921).

Like all of Tauriq’s writing, the review is informative and most importantly, it makes we want to read Kaku’s book.

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Tags: Book Review, eskeptic, michio kaku, science, Skeptic, skeptics society, tauriq

Tauriq Moosa says:

October 16, 2008 at 12:38 pm

There’ s a spelling mistake in the second last paragraph. It says “…Douglas Adam’s type machines”. It should be Douglas Adams’ with the apostrophe at the end. Apologies to my other grammar and spelling freaks.

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