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pecuniumRecent trips (Utah and Ukraine) gave me lots of time to read books (the damned web takes up much of my reading time at home).
In the Blink of an Eye: It's an argument on the cause of the Cambrian Explosion. Very well done, and my first thought (onlooking at the title/cover) was, "D'oh! of course.
In the Shadow of the Periodic Table: A book about Dimitri Mendeleev, designer of the Periodic Table of the Elements, chemist, and social engineer. Intersting, but a tad slow.
Bolt of Fate: An argument that not only didn't Franklin fly the kite, but it was either a hoax, or an attempted murder (from across an ocean). The author also contends that hoax probably saved the American Revolution, for good or ill.
Volume II of the collected reports of The Society for Primitive Technolgy: Information on stone flaking, brain tanning, bowmaking and the like. More interesting than Volume one was.
The Linguist and the Emperor: Interesting, but a tad shallow. It's a parallel lives presentation of the fellow who deciphered the heiroglyphs of Egpyt, and Napoleon. Both could have been better done, and certainly Champillion ought've been so.
And the inveterate folks at boingboing have solved the mystery of the Transgendered Shaving Cream. Seems Gillette sometimes has overruns of one products labelling. When that happens they send them to a different line to be filled, and they add a new label. This saves money because they don't have to throw the cans away. I guess they don't have the systems in place to save them for later.
TK
In the Blink of an Eye: It's an argument on the cause of the Cambrian Explosion. Very well done, and my first thought (onlooking at the title/cover) was, "D'oh! of course.
In the Shadow of the Periodic Table: A book about Dimitri Mendeleev, designer of the Periodic Table of the Elements, chemist, and social engineer. Intersting, but a tad slow.
Bolt of Fate: An argument that not only didn't Franklin fly the kite, but it was either a hoax, or an attempted murder (from across an ocean). The author also contends that hoax probably saved the American Revolution, for good or ill.
Volume II of the collected reports of The Society for Primitive Technolgy: Information on stone flaking, brain tanning, bowmaking and the like. More interesting than Volume one was.
The Linguist and the Emperor: Interesting, but a tad shallow. It's a parallel lives presentation of the fellow who deciphered the heiroglyphs of Egpyt, and Napoleon. Both could have been better done, and certainly Champillion ought've been so.
And the inveterate folks at boingboing have solved the mystery of the Transgendered Shaving Cream. Seems Gillette sometimes has overruns of one products labelling. When that happens they send them to a different line to be filled, and they add a new label. This saves money because they don't have to throw the cans away. I guess they don't have the systems in place to save them for later.
TK
