Science Blogs — which hosts the evil but lovable PZ Myers, of course — has started a book club, where folks can talk about a "recent, quality, mass-market" science book. This is a pretty good idea! They’ve started it off with Carl Zimmer’s Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life which sounds like a good book (good enough that I may very well pick up a copy and put it on my ever-growing stack).
The posts are in the usual reverse-chronological-order used by blogs, so you should scroll to the bottom and work your way up. Carl talks about his definition of life, which is a good read. I need to write up my own thoughts on this, since it’s an interesting topic!
Anyway, I’m getting in a bit late in the game; the club started on the 1st and will go through the 15th. I guess they’ll move on to a new book after that, so jump in now!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Maybe “Death from the Skies” will have a go over there?
June 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Just a quick question, Phil, since we are on the subject of Sb. Have you ever thought of joining ScienceBlogs? If I remember correctly you were giving it consideration a couple of years ago.
(They need somebody to challenge PZ’s domination of Sb readership! I am sure they’d welcome you with open arms.)
June 9th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I’ve already got too many books giving me guilty looks from the coffee table and book cases. So many books, so little time. It’s a great idea, though.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I added a LiveJournal syndication for this: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/sciblogbookclub/
This is great, Phil. I got to the end of the internet last week and took a poke at Carl’s SciBlog. Oddly enough, I was considering getting Microcosm, but I just bought a stack of books, including yours.