Light news day today, except for the collapsed bridge in Minnesota.

Seattle School Board enacts new restrictions on military recruiting in schools. Good job, SSB. I hope other districts in the state will take similar steps - while they won't stop all the corrupt recruiting practices I have heard of, it will let recruiters know that school ( Read more... )

Harry Potter news:

Printing errors reported in new Harry Potter book in America, Australia, New Zealand. Ouch. That's the last thing you want - a worldwide army of pissed off HP fans. I hope for their sake that they can fix this problem right quick.

American newspapers have already spoiled a bunch of fans with book reviews, prompting irate ( Read more... )

Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen: temper tantrums, the F-word, and the pursuit of perfection by Gordon Ramsay ( Read more... )

Here is Michael Pollan's speaking schedule for the upcoming year.

Alas, he's not coming to WA or OR anytime in the future. *is sad*

(Michael Pollan wrote The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire)

The Parrot's Lament - Eugene Linden

While Madame Bovary's Ovaries explores how humans have not quite been able to shed all biological urges and ties, The Parrot's Lament poses the inverted question: how have other animals achieved levels analogous to human consciousness ( Read more... )

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan ( Read more... )

Finished The Omnivore's Dilemma; I'll try to get a review written soon.

Currently reading:

Gen*e*sis, a book on emergence theory in biology
The Catcher in the Rye, a book I should have read long ago
and Freakonomics.

I like grazing through books. And reading is a lot more fun when you don't have to plow through piles of books for school. :)

Comic Critic: Watership Down.

Don't warp your kids by mistake...

FTW! (from scans_daily)

(Damn. This just reminded me of how much I still love that book)

In reading Madame Bovary's Ovaries, I find myself torn on many axes. First, the biologist in me thrills to the scrumptious tidbits of biological determinism referenced here, and the Renaissance in me dances joyfully at the juxtaposition of biology, human culture, and literature ( Read more... )

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell ( Read more... )