{"id":27873,"date":"2010-08-12T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/books-nerds-like-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:10:53","slug":"books-nerds-like-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/books-nerds-like-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Books nerds like | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/lw\/2kk\/book_recommendations\/\">Less Wrong<\/a> community is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/lw\/2kk\/book_recommendations\/\">having a book discussion<\/a> and offering up recommendations. I&rsquo;m currently reading <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385510691\/geneexpressio-20\">Lives of Confucius: Civilization&rsquo;s Greatest Sage Through the Ages<\/a> (long time readers will know that I&rsquo;m a particular fan of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xun_Zi\">Xun Zi<\/a> though). It is revising my view of the &ldquo;received orthodoxy&rdquo; as to the development of state sponsored Confucianism during the Han dynasty. A good complement to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B003D7JVUC\/geneexpressio-20\">The Authentic Confucius<\/a>, which is less a historical work and more a religio-philosophical exegesis of the sage&rsquo;s life. I did finish <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060935723\/geneexpressio-20\">Empires of the Word<\/a>, but I will review it at some point so I won&rsquo;t say more than I would recommend it, though with a critical eye.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a32cf_59lNaKTjBX4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Less Wrong community is having a book discussion and offering up recommendations. I&rsquo;m currently reading Lives of Confucius: Civilization&rsquo;s Greatest Sage Through the Ages (long time readers will know that I&rsquo;m a particular fan of Xun Zi though). It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/books-nerds-like-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}