…and this was rejected for being too often, so there will be a pause now.

I’m also reading Christopher Hitchens’ The Portable Atheist. It’s full of lovely, clear atheist writings from just about everyone, including the poet Shelley, most of them completely new to me.

… finding out about Lanthanoids, Rare Earth Metals, Bromine, and the Mercurial personalities that distilled, condensed, fused, and spilled their way to knowledge makes for a great, thrilling read. It should be on everyone’s list.

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio this looks to me like the best treatment of the subject so far.

Darwin in Galopogos by Thalia Grant, daughter of the Grants – fine book, good for yourself and good for a gift.

Older books: The High Frontier – A beautiful book on adventurous canopy research.

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For a group of people who supposedly keep up with science, commenters are curiously disinterested in the big scary science topic of your lives: Climate Change.

Just finished (last night, even) reading The Disappearing Spoon, a great chemistry book, and that came out only in July.

Got a lot of great science reads for my birthday a couple months back, my partner felt guilty for “only buying a bunch of text books!” Books are my crack, and science books, oh my, be still my beating heart.

I think the author of the book mentioned in 21 wrote my college Phys Chem text. Wasn’t a bad text, considering the subject matter. Shall have to double check on that, but will probably get it either way, as it’s the theory that was my favorite part.

Deborah Blum – The Poisonerâ??s Handbook

is chemistry based – http://tinyurl.com/2eoyeme

This book was just the right combination of story and theory for me. Highly recommended (I’m not a scientist)