January 9, 2011
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll…
January 7, 2011
I'll be doing a session at the upcoming ScienceOnline 2011 conference on ebooks with David Dobbs, Tom Levenson and Carl Zimmer:
Here's the description:
Sunday, 11.30-12.30
eBooks and the science community - Carl Zimmer, Tom Levenson, David Dobbs and John Dupuis
Ebooks are by far the fastest growing…
January 7, 2011
A nice tutorial for all those Born Digital Natives out there who only know how to use the dagnabbit newfangled flibbergibbet iPadnicks and Kindlemawhoosits and Kobots.
HOW TO OPERATE THE NEW PAPER BOOK YOU RECEIVED FOR CHRISTMAS:
1) Pick up book. Place in lap.
2) Open book.
3) Read…
January 6, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
You Are Not a Gadget by…
January 6, 2011
Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
US News & World Report
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
WGBH/Harvard Book Store
The Emperor of All Maladies:…
January 6, 2011
Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web
Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die
7 Major Ways We're Digitizing Our World, And 3 Reasons We Still Want Hardcopies
WIRED is dead. Long live the Internet
Wikipedia References [in US patent documents] Increase 81 Percent in 2010
2011…
January 5, 2011
Another couple of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
I've tended not to highlight individual people's bloggy lists that much here, just for the sake of my sanity and so as not to go too crazy with the number of posts, but I thought that these two list were…
January 5, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This list is from the December 5, 2010 edition of the Sunday Times. Unfortunately, I can't link to it because they have a paywall between me and the content. I did, however, get access to the full text via one of our…
January 3, 2011
I've been doing this for a few years now, last year, 2008 and 2007 and it seems like an interesting and maybe even useful thing to continue this year. I really enjoy seeing other people's reading lists (like here, here and here) and enjoy adding my own to the mix.
So, below you'll find a list of…
January 2, 2011
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll…
December 31, 2010
Ok, this is just plain hysterical. And insightful. And both insightfully hysterical and hysterically insightful.
Enjoy.
Here's a taste, read the whole thing for yourself.
50. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the…
December 31, 2010
Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Toronto Star
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Time
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light…
December 30, 2010
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin with David Quammen
The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the…
December 29, 2010
Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Wichita Eagle
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Daily Beast
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by…
December 28, 2010
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity by Paul Collier
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and…
December 27, 2010
Commensurable Nonsense (Transliteracy) and Why Transliteracy? Bobbi's Two Cents (or less)
http://arielneff.com/personal/weighing-in-on-the-ipad/
Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar's Resilience Against it
Kno Tablets Shipping To Select Faculty and Students
Publishers take note: the iPad…
December 26, 2010
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll…
December 24, 2010
The Librarian's Guide to Etiquette is one of my favourite blogs -- always whimsical and cruel at the same time. Gentle and yet going for the jugular.
Basically, taking the piss out of the library profession since 2005.
Here's some favourite posts, recent and non-so-recent:
Sweaters, Holiday
A…
December 23, 2010
Although it is perilously close to way too late, but you do have time to rush down to an actual, honest-to-goodness bookstore (or perhaps get an ebook from an estore) and maybe pick up one of these titanic suggestions from Ethan Gilsdorf on Tor.com. All great stuff for the geek in your life.
Hint…
December 22, 2010
Another couple of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
I've tended not to highlight individual people's blog lists or whatever that much here, just for the sake of my sanity and so as not to go too crazy with the number of posts, but I thought that these two list…
December 21, 2010
Another bunch of lists for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
Vancouver Sun
Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit by Loren Steffy
How the Scots Invented the Modern World The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World &…
December 21, 2010
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. The list is a compilation of selections from all the different BB editors. I'm also only selecting 2010 books from their lists.
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and…
December 20, 2010
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
The Tunguska Mystery by Vladimir Rubtsov
Coming Climate Crisis? Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix by Claire L Parkinson
How It Ends: From You to the Universe by Chris Impey
Lake Views: This World and the Universe…
December 20, 2010
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure.
FWIW, this tends to be the most important list for me every year in terms of collection development.
The Vertical Farm: The New Urban Agriculture by Despommier, Dickson
Not a Chimp: The Hunt for the Genes That Make Us…
December 19, 2010
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll…
December 18, 2010
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I'll mostly be doing the posts one or two per weekend and I'll…
December 18, 2010
(Some) Principles of Computational Science
The State of Open Source
US Trade Wholesale Electronic Book Sales
Strata Gems: Five data blogs you should read
Science Bloggers: Diversifying the news
The Four Sons of digital curation
Lots of Markets, Lots of Business Models
Copyright and Open Access for…
December 17, 2010
Nice article by Rob Mifsud in the Globe and Mail the other day combining two of my favourite things: food and books!
First, some pointers. Ditch the superstore and head to a shop that specializes in cookbooks. As Jonathan Cheung, co-owner of Appetite for Books in Montreal, points out: "I have…
December 17, 2010
Another list for your reading, gift giving and collection development pleasure. This is a compilation of picks from various writers on their Culture Lab blog.
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Alex's Adventures in Numberland:…
December 17, 2010
For those that haven't heard about the NASA/arsenic bacteria story that's been exploding all over the science blogosphere over the last couple of weeks, I like the summary over at Jonathan Eisen's Tree of Life blog:
NASA announced a major press conference
at the conference they discussed a new…
