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By: I See Book People | Cosmic Variance

I See Book People | Cosmic Variance — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 08:49:24 +0000

[...] Well, I’m recovering from an excellent hike up Mount Wilson with the USC Neurobiologists earlier today, so while I do that, I’ll tell you about last night. Recall that the LA Times Book Festival is happening this weekend. [...]

By: im

im — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:42:13 +0000

…. and you definetely need some funky jewelry …unfortunately I am not around, otherwise I would have been happy to lend you one of my special rings

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:07:21 +0000

televised!? Oh no… Now I *do* have to wear that tux.

-cvj

By: spyder

spyder — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:01:21 +0000

obviously my quick post above contains a glaring grammar error, for which i humbly beg forgiveness: “are” not “is” ‘broadcast’ !

By: spyder

spyder — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:59:00 +0000

Another good reminder: The LA Book Awards and LA Times Festival of Books is broadcast live on CSPAN, and replayed a number of times thereafter. It is brilliant television, the science writing panels are very interesting and informative, and that doesn’t begin to suggest how witty and wonderful they are. So if you can’t be at UCLA, then turn to CSPAN this weekend.

By: Christopehr Willard

Christopehr Willard — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:45:14 +0000

Yeah, you could speed read them overnight — Just like I speed-read War and Peace — It’s about Russia.

(author of Garbage Head)

By: adam

adam — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:55:02 +0000

Which reminds me that I have to go to the enormous ‘Friends of the Library’ sale in our downtown, this weekend (first weekend was last weekend).

I love me some books.

By: Wowbagger

Wowbagger — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:04:21 +0000

I know who’s won the sci/tech prize, but I won’t spoil the surprise for anyone…

By: Moshe

Moshe — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:29:32 +0000

I knew it sounded familiar! well, hopefully I will not come up with these exotic animals too frequently…

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:22:34 +0000

Thanks Moshe. Oh, a cermon is small, rare, inquisitive animal in the rodent family which is actually rather tasty roasted and sprinkled with rosemary. Bit more meat on them than gerbes, their stringier cousins.

-cvj

By: Moshe

Moshe — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:09:12 +0000

Sermon, I meant sermon (what is a cermon anyhow?), nevermind, good luck anyhow…

By: Moshe

Moshe — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:53:48 +0000

Good luck with the cermon thing (noticed I did not say that before…), the book awards seem oddly interesting- I’m in the process of digesting the evo-devo book (by that other Sean Carroll), together with half of western civilization it seems, and so far so good. If you wish to speed read something from the list, how about the Murakami novel? usually it is hard to put them down (this one if not bad, but some of his other novels are incredible).

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:42:32 +0000

Yes. It is a biologist Carroll. Writes some really excelleent stuff. Check out Evo-Devo. It is not a new European dance craze, but a very interesting field of biology mixing developmental isues with evolutionary issues. I meant to do a post about it a while ago but never got around to it.

-cvj

By: Pyracantha

Pyracantha — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:32:57 +0000

“Our” Sean Carroll writing on Evolution (or is it Devo are we not men?)? Or is there ANOTHER Sean Carroll prowling about writing science books?