Liz Kalaugher
Books Shipped Long Distance
24 Festive Tasks: Door 16 – St. Lucia’s Day, Task 4: The historic (3d century AD) St. Lucia was Italian; yet, like those of many other saints (including, e.g., St. Andrew and St. Nicholas), the most important celebrations of her holiday don’t occur in her place of origin but somewhere else in the world. List […]
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Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher: Furry Logic – The Physics of Animal Life
A bit on the fluffy side … … but I’m at the point where I basically celebrate any Flat Book Society group read that actually makes a serious effort to deliver (popular) science content without authorial grandstanding, fashion commentary and similar distractions — and notwithstanding a few silly jokes too many, this book certainly does […]
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Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher: Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life – Reading Progress Update: 127 of 304 Pages
Almost done with chapter 3 and so far, so fluffy and easily digestible. It reminds me a lot of some of the animal-related science programs on TV that I used to be glued to as a kid (and that I sometimes still enjoy watching) — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing; they did / do […]
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Science Buddy Read Book Club coming soon!
Reblogged from: Murder by Death Our current buddy read of The Invention of Nature is going well enough that when it’s finished, we’re going to convert the book club into a general science buddy read club. We definitely need a snappier name for it. In the meantime, the current members are going through their […]
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