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Science Writing! Online!
Posted by PZ Myers on June 12, 2012 The Best Science Writing Online 2012 can be read online right now — but don’t you want to order your very own precious hard copy, too?
So nice, and so wrong
Posted by PZ Myers on March 29, 2012 What do you do on airplanes? I usually devour a book or two, usually something popcorny and light, sometimes something I need to get read for work. On my trip home from Washington DC, I lucked out: I was handed a book the day I took off, and it turned out to be a damned…
Oh, look: I’m in Open Lab 2011!
Posted by PZ Myers on December 7, 2011 I made the cut, and have an entry in Open Lab 2011, which means that I am one of 51 finalists. Which further means there are 50 articles over there you want to read. Which means I have just sent my readership away from here. (Also on FtB)
Someone tell Santa about good kids’ books
Posted by PZ Myers on October 25, 2011 There aren’t enough children’s books telling the story of evolution — every doctor’s office seems to be stocked with some ludicrous children’s book promoting that nonsensical Noah’s ark story, but clean, simple, and true stories about where we came from are scarce. Here’s one, a new children’s book called Bang! How We Came to Be…
But I’ve got work to do!
Posted by PZ Myers on October 6, 2011 How dare Terry Pratchett release his new book, Snuff, next week, on top of the new stuff from Dawkins and Pinker? Hasn’t he been paying any attention to my schedule? It’s an Inspector Vimes novel, too. Yes, I’ve preordered it. I cannot resist temptation. (Also on FtB)
Crowdsourcing for a good cancer text
Posted by PZ Myers on September 29, 2011 Among the many joys plaguing me recently is learning that I get to teach, for the first time for me and for the first time at my university, I get to teach a course in cancer biology this spring term. I’m not totally unprepared for this — I was on a cancer training grant for…
Urge to kill…fading…fading…fading
Posted by PZ Myers on September 27, 2011 Steven Pinker has a new book coming out next week, and I’m very much looking forward to it. It is titled The Better Angels Of Our Nature: How Violence Has Declined, and its premise is that humans have been becoming increasingly less violent over time. I’m very sympathetic to this view: I think cooperation, not…
The Magic of Reality for iPad RIGHT NOW
Posted by PZ Myers on September 26, 2011 You can download the app today for £9.99…and the price of your iPad, of course, but all the cool kids have one of those already. Dang, I was feeling so special because I had the book on Friday and the rest of America wasn’t going to have it until 4 October, and now it turns…
As Jerry Coyne has alerted us, there is a free evolutionary biology textbook available on Kindle — grab it while you can (if you don’t have a kindle, just put the free Kindle app on your computer). I haven’t had a chance to look the book over myself. Eugene Koonin is a respected name, but…
Game of Drones
Posted by PZ Myers on July 25, 2011 Over the course of the last few weeks, I have dragged myself through George R. R. Martin’s latest, A Dance with Dragons, the fifth book in his Game of Thrones series. I’m done. No more. I’m not reading any of his books any more. It’s terrible. Martin has taken the concept of the pot-boiler to…