jdupuis | January 3, 2012Another bunch of lists 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
Stevereads 2011 Best Books of the Year: Nonfiction!
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Jay Strafford's 10 favorite books…
jdupuis | January 2, 2012Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Verge Booklist 2011.
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon
Idea Man: A…
jdupuis | December 31, 2011Another bunch of lists 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
Coffee Theory: The 10 Best Books I Read in 2011
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
The New Yorker Favorite Books from 2011 & Malcolm Gladwell
Adventures in the…
jdupuis | December 30, 2011Another bunch of lists 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
Readings Best Non-Fiction of 2011
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Seattle Times 32 of the year's best books
Fire Season -- Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors
Never Say…
jdupuis | December 30, 2011News Biscuit. My new best comedy web friend.
Forget that dangnabit "God Particle," finally one of them there sciencey gizmos has been put to some useful purpose!
Large Hadron Collider finds car keys
It cost some £6.2 billion to build, but the Large Hadron Collider may have justified that enormous price tag after it finally located Professor Brian Cox's lost car keys. The keys were lost by Cox in the 1990s while an undergraduate at the University of Manchester and his 1987 Nissan Micra has remained in an NCP car park ever since.
'When the car keys disappeared it soon became clear that there…
jdupuis | December 30, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: NPR Best Books 2011
Theodore Gray's Elements Vault: Treasures of the Periodic Table With 20 Removable Archival Documents, a Model Pop-up Atom, a Poster, Plus 10 Real Elements Including Pure Gold! by by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann…
jdupuis | December 29, 2011Another bunch of lists 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
Kansas City Star Top 100 Books of 2011
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 by…
jdupuis | December 29, 2011Another bunch of lists 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
Publishers Weekly Best Books 2011
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Council on Foreign Relations: Michael Levi Holiday Reading
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World…
jdupuis | December 27, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Five Social Media Books you Should Read.
Yeah, I know this really isn't science -- and I'm not even labelling it as such -- but this is an pretty good list of books from a marketing blog for non-profits so I do see it as being for…
jdupuis | December 26, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: A Brilliant List of Science Books for People Who Want Their Minds Blown.
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
Eruptions that Shook the World by Clive Oppenheimer
Radioactivity: A…
jdupuis | December 24, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: New Scientist (via Culture Lab blog).
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins
The Better Angels of Our Nature:…
jdupuis | December 23, 2011Thanks be to the Flying Spaghetti Monster for the Cronk of Higher Ed. That is all.
Recreation of Infamous Bridge Collapse Exonerates Engineers
Researchers at the U.S. Marine Academy's civil engineering labs have determined that the designers of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge were not responsible for that structure's spectacular 1940 collapse.
"It's those videos," commented Dr. Ramsey Archer, head of the research team. "Millions of people have seen footage of the bridge's gyrating plunge over and over again, ad nauseam. Very cool to watch, but it's lousy science."
Dr. Ramsey's idea was…
jdupuis | December 23, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Last-Minute Shopping List by Sean Carroll on Cosmic Variance.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence…
jdupuis | December 22, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Technology and Learning blog by Joshua Kim.
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay
Triumph of the City: How Our…
jdupuis | December 21, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Kirkus Reviews.
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager
First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond…
jdupuis | December 20, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Science, Non-Fiction.
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science by Michael Nielsen
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
Blue Revolution…
jdupuis | December 19, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: Marginal Revolution Very Best Books, Best General Non-Fiction.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Stephen Pinker
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the…
jdupuis | December 18, 2011Another bunch of lists 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following:
American Public Media Marketplace Best Business Books
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science by Michael Nielsen
Chicago Sun-Times Best Bet Holiday Gift Books
Steve Jobs by…
jdupuis | December 16, 2011Another 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 2011 lists are here.
This post includes the following: The Economist Books of the Year.
The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for…
jdupuis | December 16, 2011OK, the blog post in question isn't actually that funny. But the title is. And, it's really worth reading for the seriously intentioned message it contains.
How to argue with a scientist: A guide.
I notice it all the time- on Facebook, in the comments of a science blog, over family gatherings, or listening to a radio talk show. Someone, maybe you, is patiently trying to explain how vaccines cause autism, perhaps, or why so-called "anthropogenic" global warming is really just due to sunspots or some other natural cycle. Perhaps you are doing pretty well at first, making use of passionate,…