1. worldsfair
  2. Procastination Science Reading (June 29/2006)

Procastination Science Reading (June 29/2006)

By worldsfair on June 29, 2006.

Since thursday is no longer must see TV, here is a round up of some interesting pieces that relate (although sometimes weakly) to the sciences.

Let's first begin with this great open letter at the venerable McSweeney's. The title says it all really: "Open Letter to Keith Richard's Immune System." (by Litsa).

Chris regularly makes me laugh out loud, and I think there's a lot of value in that sort of thing. Read his "Trash Talkin' at the Science Museum." Also, since Star Jones seems to be in the news a lot lately, read his "I'm your biggest fan" piece - bonus points if you can work in some science discussion in that piece.

Next up, an offering that aims to compare an Al Gore speech to a Boyz II Men concert. Called POLITICIANS VERSUS POP STARS: THE END OF THE ROAD WITH AL GORE AND BOYZ II MEN and written by Sarah Burch, a Ph.D student currently working on a project with me and others.

Finally, a short and wonderful piece called "On String Theory." I haven't asked Sona yet, but I think something like this would look good on the spine of a book such as this.

Tags
The Book Building

More like this

Al Gore vs Boyz II Men: Battle Royale
After Mr. Gore visited our campus a month or so ago, one of the students who is working with me on the terry.ubc.ca project wrote an interesting piece comparing his talk (of which his movie An Inconvenient Truth is based on) to a Boyz II Men concert she went to the same week. As the editor…
Scientist Rock Star!
In an interview in Time magazine, Morgan Spurlock said, among else (and you should go and read the "else"): We've started to make science and empirical evidence not nearly as important as punditry--people wusing p.r.-speak to push a corporate or political agenda. I think we need to turn scientists…
Tet Zoo = back in business
Well, the whole 'distributed denial of service' thing has done a pretty effective job of keeping me away from Tet Zoo entirely. No chance to blog, and not even the chance to look at the site at all - so, wow, thanks for keeping the protobats discussion going (97 98 comments... not bad). While…
Science and Pinatas: Together at last!
Ben just alerted me of one of my humour pieces going up today at McSweeney's. Like the post title suggests, it's about science and pinatas. The key question, of course, is why did I categorize this post in the "humanities and social sciences," but to be honest, I'm not sure of that answer myself…