Science Book #1: About pace, and the desire for fixes –“The Missing Piece” by...
I thought I would start with this great picture story book, although in truth I could have easily started with another by the same author (the always irrepressible, but sadly missed away Shel...
View ArticleScience book #2: About silliness and running amok with a scientific theme...
In Norway, you say “buse.” As a geneticist, I am a lot more familiar with the concept of snot than one might suspect. And although this may appear to be a sort of an odd soundbite, it can be quickly...
View ArticleScience book #3: About picking up the jargon –“Katie and the Dinosaurs” by...
This book makes the cut, not necessarily because I find it particularly endearing (although it is a lovely story, and ever so British in a Paddington Bear sort of way), but because this is the book...
View ArticleScience book #5: About nothing to do with science, about everything to do...
This book is a lovely piece of prose with geat artwork that looks at the power of how certain experiences, and more specifically certain teachers can provide the inspiration that ultimately makes a...
View ArticleCat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
How great is this book? It’s that great, that’s how much. But beyond superficial (and meaningless) qualifiers like “great,” this book does a remarkable job of fascinating me, interesting students, and...
View ArticleVonnegut Week Continues at The World’s Fair
Ode to “Report on the Barnhouse Effect” (1950). The “Report on the Barnhouse Effect” was Vonnegut’s first published story, appearing in Collier’s. That was while he was working at GE in public...
View ArticleThe 100-Mile Diet. Could you eat only food grown and produced within a 100...
It looks like a lot, but really it’s not (hey, that rhymes) Clearly, food is a hot topic these days. You see it constantly in the cultural dominance of things like the Food Channel, Martha Stewart, or...
View ArticleThree Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Or, From Crimea to Prussia to...
Preface | Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | (Sidebar 1) | Pt. 4 | Pt. 5 | Pt. 6 Pt. 7 | (Sidebar 2a) | (Sidebar 2b) | Pt. 8 | Pt. 9 | Conclusion As an understatement, I can say this: I’ve been overwhelmed of...
View ArticleDon’t you just hate the difference between seeing things ‘as they are’ and...
Preface | Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | (Sidebar 1) | Pt. 4 | Pt. 5 | Pt. 6 Pt. 7 | (Sidebar 2a) | (Sidebar 2b) | Pt. 8 | Pt. 9 | Conclusion Richard Powers, in his debut novel Three Farmers on Their Way to a...
View ArticleWater water everywhere. Great children’s book image on the subject of water.
This is great. And this is also an image that seems appropriate when choosing to speak about water as a resource generally – it might, for instance, be a good prelude to discussions like this. Anyway,...
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