I'm headed out to the MIND08: The Design and the Elastic Mind Symposium in New York, so things will probably be a little light here today. I have no idea when I'll make it home, but you can expect a post about the day when I get back.
To keep things going a little bit while I'm out then, I'd like to know what you all have been reading lately. I'm almost done with Lucy, but today I'll be bringing along Bonebeds for the train ride. So far it's quite good, and seems like it would be a good companion to Exceptional Fossil Preservation.
Right now, I'm in the midst of James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed. A classic, to my mind, and I love the way he ties so tightly together things that seem to have nothing to do with each other. Mmmm, happy brain. ;-)
Before that it was Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. It's nice to know the world hasn't suddenly gotten filled with stupid people - they've been among us all along, and science has marched along regardless. Comforting, that.
I am also reading "Bonebeds" right now!
M. C. Cross and P. C. Hohenberg, "Pattern formation outside of equilibrium" Reviews of Modern Physics 65, 3 (July 1993): 851–1112. DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.65.851.