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It’s fall. Time to start hoarding bird books.
Posted by Greg Laden on October 24, 2011 Here in the Northern Hemisphere, many of our birds fly away in the fall. Other, very cool birds from even farther north, depending on where you live then arrive. But just about now, where I live, we are at the tail end of the migration out and not quite at the migration in, so this…
You come from Cannibals
Posted by Greg Laden on September 28, 2011 A man “lies crumpled on the sand … Behind him a dark trail leads back to the spot from which he has just been dragged. Looking closer, we notice something slightly odd about the figure crouching over the wounded man. His posture does not suggest a doctor attempting to staunch bleeding, or even to check…
A List Of Lisp and Emacs Books
Posted by Greg Laden on September 26, 2011 Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! is a book about lisp programming. If you are into programming for fun, artificial intelligence, role playing games, or an emacs user, you should take a look at this book. I’ve got some info on this book as well as a few…
Evolution Book for Kids
Posted by Greg Laden on September 24, 2011 Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be, a kids evolution book, has won the 2010 Lane Anderson Award. The reason I mention this is because of this blog post which discusses how the book is published in Canada but not the US. This bit of the post is interesting: Loxton has reported…
Vaccination vs. Disease: Which is worse?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 17, 2011 It is very reasonable for a parent to worry about vaccines. For one thing, most of them involve sticking the baby or child with a sharp object, thus making the little one cry, and it would be abnormal to not have an automatic reaction to that. For another thing, they are drugs, in a sense.…
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