jdupuis | December 15, 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: Physics World Top 10 books of 2011.
Engineering Animals: How Life Works by Mark Denny, Alan McFadzean
Measure of the Earth: the Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World by Larrie Ferreiro
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes…
jdupuis | December 14, 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: Globe and Mail Gift Books.
A History of The World in 100 Weapons by Chris McNabb
Voyages: To The New World and Beyond by Gordon Miller
Explorers: The Most Exciting Voyages of Discovery - From the African Expeditions to the Lunar…
jdupuis | December 13, 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: Brain Pickings The 11 Best Science Books of 2011.
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
The Physics Book:…
jdupuis | December 12, 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: Washington Post Top 10, 50 Best Non-Fiction Books, Great photobooks of 2011.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
In the Plex: How Google…
jdupuis | December 11, 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:
Greg Laden's Blog
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians by Richard Sugg
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence Otto
The…
jdupuis | December 11, 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: San Francisco Chronicle Biographies, Essays, History, Nature, Architecture, Travel.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
South With the Sun…
jdupuis | December 10, 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: Sustainable Cities Collective Best Books 2011.
Landscapes in Landscapes by Piet Oudolf
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment by Ann M. Wolfe
Field Notes from Science and Nature by Michael R. Canfield (Editor)…
jdupuis | December 9, 2011Now this one should start some really good arguments in the comments!
6 Pop Culture Visionaries Who Get Too Much Credit
Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek)
George Lucas (Star Wars)
Stan Lee (X Men, and really the whole Marvel Comics shebang)
Who Actually Deserves the Credit:
While Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did create the core concept in 1963 -- teenage mutant superheroes living in a mansion helping Professor X fight Magneto -- their vision of the team was so unsuccessful that Marvel stopped creating new X-Men stories in 1969. They ran in reprints for a while, until the book was finally given to…
jdupuis | December 9, 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:
New Statesman
Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
Great Railway Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard
National Book Award
Radioactive:…
jdupuis | December 8, 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 Independent Biography: Near-deaths and divine rebirths, History: Countries of the mind, Science & Nature: Planetary possibilities.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by…
jdupuis | December 6, 2011I'm doing a short presentation tomorrow on blogging for researchers as part of a day-long communications workshop for faculty here at York. And since a few months back I created a reading list for a social media presentation for grad students, I thought I'd expand that list in this post and add some more specifically blogging-related resources.
Enjoy!
Our Blogs, Ourselves (Paul Krugman)
The Power of Blogs in Forming New Fields of International Study
Should you enter the academic blogosphere? A discussion on whether scholars should take the time to write a blog about their work
Social media…
jdupuis | December 5, 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 Guardian Books for giving: science, Biography, History, Nature.
Incoming!: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite by Ted Nield
Survivors: The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey…
jdupuis | December 5, 2011First the good news.
Saturday's Toronto Star had a really nice little piece on the trend among some Toronto-area science grad students to get a sign of their scientific passion tattooed onto their bodies.
T.D. MacDonald fact-checked the design five times before he let one drop of ink penetrate his skin.
"I didn't want to have an incorrect chemical structure on my body," he says, recounting the long hours he spent creating his tattoo. "The way it is oriented in space had to be right."
That his ink is accurate matters to him, of course.
But few of us would know the strangely beautiful tattoo…
jdupuis | December 3, 2011
On Changing Reading Habits or Savoring the Experience
Who decides what a library should be? Those who use it or those who pay for it?
The rise of the new information gatekeepers
Exploding The "Influentials" Myth
"Ambitious, Unfunded, and Possible"
Grad Students and Digital Education
How to Get Past Your Customers' Lies
Regarding Snobbery
Copyright Policy and Practice in Electronic Reserves among ARL Libraries
Should you enter the academic blogosphere? A discussion on whether scholars should take the time to write a blog about their work
Cutting their own throats
The degree is the job: a…
jdupuis | December 2, 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: Library Journal Business, Consumer Health, Sci-Tech.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Stephen Levy
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Your Medical Mind: How To Decide What Is…
jdupuis | December 2, 2011Sure, John Scalzi doesn't need any link love from me.
On the other hand, sometimes he just hits one right out of the park.
Apparently the other day he stumbled upon a Lord of the Rings trilogy showing on TV. And he had a web-enabled machine of some sort handy. And he had Twitter open.
Hilarity ensued. Of the highest order. Lord of the Tweets it is!
Here's a samplling, but please do drop by Scalzi's blog and check out his complete rundown of tweets.
OSHA clearly has no jurisdiction in Moria.
I am suddenly aware of just how little difference there is between Orlando Bloom's Legolas and…
jdupuis | December 1, 2011Another couple 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:
Indigo Best of 2011: Books
The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How…
jdupuis | November 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: Booklist Online Biography, Environment, Business.
Galileo by John Heilbron
American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park; What Our Gardens Tell Us about Who We Are by Wade Graham
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig,…
jdupuis | November 29, 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: Boing Boing Gift Guide 2011.
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army &…
jdupuis | November 28, 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 Financial Times.
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward Glaeser
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson
DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops…