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Reading Diary: The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible by Lance Fortnow
Posted by John Dupuis on May 21, 2013 Someone shoot me if I ever use the term NP-complete in a sentence. Or at least if I ever use the term in a conversation with “civilians.” Such is the dilemma of reading and reviewing a wonderful book like Lance Fortnow’s The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible. I’ll be tempted…
Reading Diary: Keystone XL: Down the Line by Steven Mufson
Posted by John Dupuis on April 29, 2013 What kind of place has Canada become? The kind of place that closes world-class research facilities in the arctic and in lake country. (Thanks, Ontario!) The kind of place where the government actively muzzles it’s own scientists and librarians, the scientists for wanting to share their research and librarians who want to talk about the…
Friday Fun: 30 things to tell a book snob
Posted by John Dupuis on April 26, 2013 I’ll admit, I’m a bit of a book snob, a strange thing to say for a lifetime comics/science fiction/fantasy/horror/mystery fan, but there you go. Perhaps more precisely, I’m a snob about books versus other media. But in my defense I’ll maintain that I’m getting better as I get older — more tolerant and accepting and…
Reading Diary: Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart edited by Steve White
Posted by John Dupuis on April 8, 2013 Every once in a while a review copy of a book comes over the transom and it just makes your day. Nothing else that could happen is going to put a damper on the bright sunny mood that springs from such a happy moment. One that arrived a few days ago that I can wait…
Reading Diary: Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Posted by John Dupuis on February 4, 2013 Jonathan Fetter-Vorm’s Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb is a real gem of a graphic novel, yet another stunning exemplar of what is possible with the graphic novel format. As I’ve often said, there are basically two kinds of science graphic novels — those that use the format to illustrate the same…
Best Science Books 2012: The top books of the year!!!!!
Posted by John Dupuis on January 28, 2013 Every year for the last several years I’ve collated and extracted the science books from all the various “best books of the year” lists in different mainstream media and various other outlets. I’ve done the same this year for books published in 2011! I can tell it’s been popular among my readers from the hit…
Best Science Books 2012: Teaching Biology, Part 3
Posted by John Dupuis on January 19, 2013 Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
Best Science Books 2012: Cryptomundo
Posted by John Dupuis on January 18, 2013 Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
Best Science Books 2012: The Guardian
Posted by John Dupuis on January 16, 2013 Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
Best Science Books 2012: ScienceGeek / Shabbeer Hassan
Posted by John Dupuis on January 15, 2013 Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure. Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year. All the previous 2012 lists…
