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On The Bookshelves Of The Digerati
David Wilson
Founder of the Museum of Jurassic Technology and 2001 MacArthur fellow
The Secret Service, by Wendy Walker This is a curiously fanciful spy novel, apparently set in the 18th century, the time period in which the museum as an institution originated. The central device is that members of a secret service are able to transmute themselves into physical objects - elegant pieces of porcelain, fine glass, and sculpture. These pieces are given as gifts to foreign dignitaries and are able to observe and communicate back. The writing is exquisite, especially how it gives one the sense of actually being an object."
Monika Henzinger
Director of research at Google
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, by Bryan Sykes The thing that spoke to me was geneticist Bryan Sykes' description of how to conduct research. If you're following a lead and find a contradictory fact that changes your course, you end up researching something you never thought could be related. With research, you never know where you will end up, but very often you uncover something interesting. He walks us through his discovery that 95 percent of Europeans, if they study their pure maternal bloodline, come from one of seven women. That's fascinating!"
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A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, edited by Graham Farmelo
Britney's Dance Beat
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
DavidLynch.com
Limited Edition Teflon Windbreaker
Pencil Whipped
ReadMe
Music
DeskSwap
Line 6 GuitarPort
Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out, by Harry Knowles with Paul Cullum and Mark Ebner
Freedom Force
The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities, by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
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