Scientist Gone Wordy

I recently picked The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness for my book club (and it's very interesting - you s...

PCN often has the most amazing posts about personal or family events but this must be the absolute most amazing of all !

And it's a good one. Read it here . (hat tip: Dr M)

Title: O peration Terror Author: The Gordons Publisher: Doubleday & Company , Inc. ( 1960 ) If Michael and I were on the E...

One of its scariest attributes is The Enabler. Don't be one. Brutsch is a grown-ass man who has made his own choices, choices that c...

Have a listen. sgwordy says: So if I decide the sky is white and start looking at it like it's white will I see white more than blue? ...

Title: Ghost Soldiers Author: Hampton Sides Publisher: Doubleday (2001) Repeat readers of this book/movie post series might have n...

Funny on the show , funny in real life.

Check out this article .  And I couldn't agree more with... I don't know. I think we have this tendency to overrate our powers ...

Check out what these unsuspecting Swedes said about their paternity leave : Before going on leave, Mr. Decker says he thought: "You ...

Found here . The segment that most caught my eye: But the veil of opulence operates only under the guise of fairness. It is rather a di...

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Title: Bubba Ho-Tep Author: Joe R. Lansdale Publisher: Tachyon Publications (2010) Note: This short story was originally published...

Title: Shoeless Joe Author: W. P. Kinsella Publisher: Ballantine Books (1987) Michael has a knack for introducing me to titles I ...

I don't think it's just because I'm a scientist that I can't understand people who aren't interested in being well infor...

My household are big fans of Alan Rickman. As such, we've decided to review his films from start to finish.  Using IMDb , that puts...

(hat tip: Michael )

Sports make me smile.

Title: The Black Dahlia Author: James Ellroy Publisher: Mysterious Press (1987) This title doesn't exactly bring out my sentim...

Since I follow Feminist Frequency (permalink in SG Links if interested) I read her post about the Kickstarter project and was pretty excite...