Attention Virginian readers of the Loom: I'll be heading to warmer climes later this week to speak in Charlottesville at the Virginia Festival of the Book. On Thursday at 4 I'll be speaking on a panel about science and society. On Friday at 4 I'll be speaking again on scientific discoveries and how they change us. I'm looking forward to listening to my fellow panelists, who include Robin Marantz Henig and James Shreeve. See you there.
More like this
'cept these folks:
Slate, on Janet Browne's new edition of Origin and on Darwin as a writer. Jonah's digging it too; and so is fellow Virginian Jason.
The Economist on the globalizing trend of evolution-creationism debates
The Chronicle of Higher Education dishes up an essay that discusses these…
The Festival is thrilled to have Homer Hickam, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rocket Boys, as a Featured Author this year. Homer's new book Crater, the first novel in his new Helium-3 series for young adults, will be released just in time for the Festival. You have the opportunity to…
Busy week for me. I'm preparing a talk for a conference next month with the longest title ever: The International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man. (Basically, a conference on zoonotic disease.) I'll be speaking about my research on Streptococcus suis, and hopefully meeting…
I usually post something here about what panels look interesting when the Boskone program goes up on the web. This year's program went up over the weekend, and I'm just now getting around to making a list of worthwhile items. This tells you what kind of week I'm having.
Anyway, I looked the program…