One of the books in SteelyKid’s regular rotation of books to read at naptime and bedtime is this book about a girl visiting characters from fairy tales to ask them what makes somebody happy ever after. It’s not the greatest, but she enjoys it. It occurs to me, though, that while the book references a… Continue reading Fairy Tale Book Recommendations?
Month: February 2011
Links for 2011-02-05
D-squared Digest — FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else “There is always a level of civil unrest that outstrips the capability of even the most loyal and largest regular armed forces to deal with. In all likelihood, as a medium sized emerging market, you will have a capital… Continue reading Links for 2011-02-05
People Dancing
I’ve been watching the Al Jazeera English livestream off and on this week to keep up with events in Egypt. At some point, SteelyKid came in while I had it on, saw shots of the cheering crowds from Tuesday, and said “People dancing!” Sometime on Wednesday, she marched over to me, and demanded to watch… Continue reading People Dancing
Thursday Tee-Time Blogging 020311
Given that the snow banks on the sides of the driveway are taller than SteelyKid, it might not seem like time for golf. If she’s going to reach her goal of being the first toddler to win an event on the PGA Tour, though, she can’t afford to take time off from practicing: Swing coach… Continue reading Thursday Tee-Time Blogging 020311
Heavy Heavy Water
I make an effort to say nice things about pop-science books that I read, whether for book research or blog reviews. Every now and then, though, I hit a book that has enough problems that I have a hard time taking anything positive from it. I got David Bodanis’s E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s… Continue reading Heavy Heavy Water
Links for 2011-02-03
Best Science Books 2010: The top books of the year!!!! : Confessions of a Science Librarian More good science books than you have time to read. (tags: books science blogs confess-science-lib) Locus Roundtable » The Locus 2010 Recommended Reading List More good SF books that you have time to read. (tags: books sf literature review… Continue reading Links for 2011-02-03
Links for 2011-02-02
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Meritocracy and Hiring “Is academic hiring meritocratic? The author of this piece assumes that it is. As someone whose job it is to actually hire faculty, I can attest that merit is only a small part of the picture. The single most important part of the picture is the… Continue reading Links for 2011-02-02
Sports Reported Like Science
the Wall Street Journal, of all places, has a profile of college basketball analyst Bill Raftery and how he prepares to call games. This would be nothing more than Links Dump material, save for the fact that bits of it appear to have been written for the benefit of visiting aliens who have never seen… Continue reading Sports Reported Like Science
Links for 2011-02-01
Wait, Who Has Sinister Connections to Insiders That Influence Their Reporting? « Easily Distracted “[…]Al-Jazeera! Al-Jazeera, with its mysterious (sinister!) agenda, its undisclosed connections, its desire to influence events! As opposed to what? The New York Times, the Washington Post, the major US TV network news operations, with their still-largely cozy relationship to undisclosed inside… Continue reading Links for 2011-02-01