Books:
Via BikeMonkey I see that DrugMonkey had a "106 Books of Pretension" meme going last October. Namely, "the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users." So here we go - what I’ve read is in italics,...
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Posted on April 25, 2008 9:35 PM • 35 Comments
The Telegraph has a list up of the top fifty "best cult books," a category they describe as: the sort of book that people wear like a leather jacket or carry around like a totem. The book that rewires your...
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Posted on April 25, 2008 3:44 PM • 17 Comments
Vox Day - who writes for WorldNetDaily - has published a book, The Irrational Atheist which is available for free online. It’s an attack on Hitchens, Harris, Dawkins and other "new atheists". Brent Rasmussen over at Unscrewing the Inscrutable has...
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Posted on February 23, 2008 8:15 PM • 10 Comments
Razib has posted his thoughts on Chapter 4 of Gould’s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory and ends with: I suspect that defenders of this reputedly brilliant work will claim the long build up cashes out in a stupendous climax which...
Posted on February 2, 2008 4:08 PM • 8 Comments
Unlike Razib, my reading of Gould’s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory isn’t progressing. This is for a number of reasons but primary among them is a busy week service-wise coupled with other reading that must take priority if I’m going...
Posted on January 31, 2008 10:23 PM • 0 Comments
Elliot Sober has a new book coming out this year, Evidence and Evolution; The Logic Behind the Science. The book is divided into four sections: The Concept of Evidence, Intelligent Design, Natural Selection, and Common Ancestry. Below are the contents...
Posted on January 13, 2008 6:43 PM • 1 Comments
The 486 nominations for Open Laboratory 2007 have been whittled down to 53 and Bora has the complete listing of the entries that will appear in book form in time for the 2nd Science Blogging Conference. I’m happy to report...
Posted on January 2, 2008 2:25 PM • 1 Comments
This is old news, but in 1998 Random House generated one of those "100 Best Novels" lists as voted by a panel and by readers. Interestingly there was quite the disconnect between what both groups favored: The Board’s Top 5...
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Posted on October 19, 2007 7:52 PM • 15 Comments
Many readers will by now have encountered the (frankly) frivolous law suit filed - for $15 million for Jeez sake- by Stuart Pivar against PZ Myers for negatively reviewing Pivar’s book Lifecode. Peter Irons - retired law professor at UCSD...
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Posted on August 24, 2007 9:33 PM • 54 Comments
This is sad. Kurt Vonnegut has died. Pessimist, existentialist and damn great writer. As he said in God Bless You Mr Rosewater: "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and...
Posted on April 12, 2007 3:25 AM • 0 Comments
Once again, my sheep-like characteristics manifest themselves and I find myself dutifully following Orac, PZ, Bora, Joseph, John, Rob, and Afarensis in listing (in bold) those of the "Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years" that...
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Posted on March 11, 2007 4:39 PM • 3 Comments
The more astute among you will have noticed that I have been awol more-or-less for the past week. I have a major deadline to hit on Friday and once that is done (and I have rested) I will resume...
Posted on January 31, 2007 7:55 PM • 1 Comments
Bora is pleased to announce that The Open Laboratory is now available for purchase as an e-book or dead tree. Relive the finest moments of science blogging in the comfort of your armchair. Thrill, as yours truly expounds on...
Posted on January 16, 2007 12:30 AM • 0 Comments
I've been involved in the creation/evolution battle - for such it is - since 1998. Over the years, I have talked to many groups - students, concerned citizens, scientists, lawyers - on this issue and have often been asked...
Posted on November 23, 2006 1:22 AM • 0 Comments
This illustration of a rather jovial looking Bradypus tridactylus (three-toed sloth) comes from Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber's Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen ['Mammals Illustrated after Nature with Descriptions', 1774, Vol I II & III]....
Posted on November 23, 2006 12:38 AM • 0 Comments
Others have noticed that John Horgan has presented his own personal list of the ten "worst science books." Many of his choices aren't science books per se and he obviously ignores his own excerable The End of Science which was,...
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Posted on November 22, 2006 3:07 PM • 5 Comments
