Archives for January, 2010
Best Science Books 2009: New Zealand Listener
Posted by John Dupuis on January 4, 2010 The New Zealand Listener has a few good suggestions from two different categories: Science and Journalism & Essays. The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Innocents in the Dry Valley: An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic…
My Job in 10 Years: Optimism
Posted by John Dupuis on January 4, 2010 Burn down the library. C’mon, all the books in the world are already digitized. Burn the thing down…Stop air conditioning the books. Enough already. -Adrian Sannier (via) Optimism seems like a strange thing for a librarian to have at the start of the second decade of the 21st century. There’s no shortage of people who…
Friday Fun: Let’s all start fresh with a Lovecraftian new year’s resolution!
Posted by John Dupuis on January 1, 2010 Ok, I promise, this is the last Lovecraftian Friday Fun for a while. I double promise. It’s also possible that I can’t be trusted in this matter. Anyways, to celebrate the the fresh possibilities of the new year, let’s mosey on down to Tor.com and see how S.J. Chambers is doing — a horror fan…
