WAR by Sebastian Junger
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Finished: WAR
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Finished: Mr. Peanut
Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Finished: All Clear
All Clear by Connie Willis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Visualizing numbers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11798317
Stumping for a BBC special about visualizing data and numbers.
Finished: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis—and Themselves
Finished: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Reviews from Zadie Smith and Neil Gaiman
I mention the reviews below because my interest is piqued. I would like to read both books.
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Zadie Smith reviewed You’re Not a Gadget from Jaron Lanier, but integrates it into a piece on Mark Zuckerberg and The Social Network. As an aside, what she does in this review, to synthesize and create some new thoughts on a subject, is the very thing I wish to do in this blog. Of course, that is the mode of review in The New York Review of Books. But more often than not, the review is more an opinion piece by the reviewer than an engagement of the book.
Neil Gaiman reviewed Stephen King’s new collection of novellas: Full Dark, No Stars.
Links
A list of the top 7 scientific articles, in genetics for the last month, as ranked by the Faculty of 1000.
There’s also an interesting article in this week’s Nature about efforts to find and archive old data. Part of is for historical interest, but in a field like climatology, it is can be vital to keep the primary data for local weather over a “small” 100 year time frame.
Finished: Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling
Finished: City at the End of Time
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
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