Books

Back in January, I picked up some tiny, tiny zines at the Science Online ’09 conference. For the past three months, they have been on my coffee table, waiting for…

My birthday this year was somewhat overshadowed by Darwin’s 200th in the same week. But both Darwin and I are victims of the yearly creep of that Hallmarkest of Holidays…

I’m reading Wilder Penfield’s autobiography, for work, and noticed that he was kind of a blogger. He was a very good writer, and there is lots of detail in the…

I often have very funny dreams. There was one where an alternate reality version of Dumbledore (from Harry Potter) drove a Vespa and wore a “The Who” T-shirt. Other dreams…

At the upcoming Science Online ’09 conference, Peggy Kolm and Stephanie Zvan will be hosting a session about the use of science fiction to communicate science. They’re asking science fiction…

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. I’m not good at it at all (yarrrr?) but I made up for it by reading a book about pirates. Pirates and scientists,…