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FemaleScienceProfessor: No Man's Land Why, as much as I gripe about our finance department, dealing with them is infinitely better than dealing with their research university counterparts. (tags: academia science economics) Thought For The Day -- Words Words Words -- The Dream Cafe Weblog Also…
Video Breakdown: Khan and Kinematics | Wired Science | Wired.com "So my quick take - Khan Academy is a textbook video. Are textbooks new? No. Are they the best thing for students? No. Should we ban textbooks in all forms? I don't think so. What about other aspects of Khan Academy videos? How are…
nanoscale views: Einstein, thermodynamics, and elegance "Recently, in the course of other writing I've been doing, I again came to the topic of what are called Einstein A and B coefficients, and it struck me again that this has to be one of the most elegant, clever physics arguments ever made. …
Guided By Voices | Music | A.V. Club "Dozens of people can say they were members of indie-rock institution Guided By Voices during its 21-year run, but the Dayton, Ohio-based band was chiefly a creative outlet for a music-obsessed former schoolteacher named Robert Pollard. And Pollard was very…

You may be interested to see that the Guardian link shows your book at #4 in This Week's Bestsellers in the Guardian Bookshop. Though to be fair, Origin of Species is listed at #2, so you're more like #3. Congratulations!