In case you missed it during the attack on Russian free speech, you may want to check out my trip to England and Scotland in Facebook statuses.

You should also check out my interview with Anisha Nagarajan of Outsourced. She gave a great e-mail interview, and maybe you will be convinced to give Outsourced a chance. It's really funny, I promise! ( Read more... )

After reading Scenting the Dark and Other Stories, I looked forward to Mary Robinette Kowal's first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey. I had to wait for the library to order it, and then I had to wait for my hold on it. I was rather pleased that I had to wait! Apparently this book was popular.

And why wouldn't it be? Shades of Milk and Honey has a ( Read more... )

I cannot remember who recommended the book or why I bought it, but I've just finished Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin. Neil Shubin co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands" (yeah, we already knew they existed, io9), in 2004. This creature represents an intermediate between aquatic ( Read more... )

At a recent medical writers conference, I picked up a free book. Free book! How could I resist? Especially when it was about a subject I've become interested in. The book was An Apple a Day: The Myths, Misconceptions, and Truths About the Foods We Eat by Joe Schwarcz, PhDBecause Dr. Schwarcz is a chemist, he focuses on the actual chemical ( Read more... )

At the genetics session at Asilomar, the instructor highly recommended Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley. She even read an excerpt from the introduction. So I put it on my Amazon Wishlist, since I suck at genetics. Sure enough, Melanie, who reads science books for fun way more than I do, bought it for me for my ( Read more... )