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Freshwater quality, drought, flood, and future
Alex Prud’homme wrote a book called The Ripple Effect, about fresh water. He was talking about it and reading from it last night at Town Hall, and I went to listen. It was an interesting evening, not...
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Today — June 17, 2011
Northwest biologist Thor Hanson reads from his book Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA (map) at 6:30pm tonight. Here’s a video of Hanson talking...
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Events Today — June 27, 2011
Sharon Levy, former field biologist and author of Once and Future Giants, is talking about mastodons running through our neighborhoods, the contentious role of humans in the Pleistocene large animal...
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Events Today — June 30, 2011
Today at 7:30pm Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, science historians and authors of Merchants of Doubt, talk about Scientists Who Obscure the Truth — apparently a “cadre of high-level scientists and...
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Logicomix: a review
I’m not a big reader of comic books. So take my words on this for what they’re worth. This one I picked up at the Seattle Public Library because I knew it dealt with the story of the logical...
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Recommended today — Jan 12, 2012
Tonight! In Seattle at 7pm, Winifred Gallagher reads from her newest book New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change at the Elliot Bay Bookstore. Free. And in Poulsbo at 7:30pm, Dr. Julia...
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