Science

[close] A book club for healthcare-inclined polymaths and curious people. Themes include integrative medicine, health and social justice, medical ethics and humanities, philosophy of science, systems theory, and biology.

[close] (This group was formerly 1x1 Romance) Welcome to 1x1 RPs! This the perfect group for all types of awesome roleplaying. Come on and join us <3 We are LGBTQ Friendly! Now celebrating 1000+ members! Thank you all so much! Enjoy the Roleplaying!

[close] This group is for those of us who like stories in space but don't have much patience for flagrant violations of well established physics. IMHO, any story that is physically impossible should be considered a sub-genre of fantasy. The worse culprit is faster-than-light (FTL) communication, which is highly unlikely because regardless of the mechanism, special relativity tells us it will violate causality and require infinite energy for all known matter. So lets collect those rare pieces of interstellar fiction that deserves the moniker "science".

[close] "Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodreads and these are some of our Focus Areas. We have welcomed worldwide members from over 171 countries; we are a large international group which spans the globe. The eleventh global HBC Readathon begins - Saturday - 8AM - March 25th - hurry - sign up - so you and your books can be counted. First, join the group and then sign up here. Reading Challenges on Japan and a new one on Ireland - sign up here. Discussions: Bentley is leading a spotlighted discussion of Washington, A Life by Ron Chernow - see here. The Dec/Jan/Feb 2016/2017 BOTM - Democracy in America by Tocqueville kicked off - led by Bentley - check it out here. Polls - Vote Now - Two Polls Open: 1. World Challenges - Vote - favorite country - Vote here 2. Presidential Series - Vote here Upcoming: Dubliners by James Joyce - January 16th, 2017 March BOTM - Lindbergh by A. Scot Berg