Just a bit of light reading…
Fiction
Zodiac – Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
Spook Country – William Gibson
various oddities from H. P. Lovecraft
Non-Fiction
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas Hofstader
Chaos – James Gleick
Hypersea: Life on Land – McMenamin & McMenamin
Gaia’s Body – Tyler Volk
Papers
- Hazen, Robert M., Papineau, Dominic, Bleeker, Wouter, Downs, Robert T., Ferry, John M., McCoy, Timothy J., Sverjensky, Dimitri A., Yang, Hexiong Mineral evolution American Mineralogist 2008 93: 1693-1720 (HTML (sub req’d) PDF) Discusses the minerals formed at various stages of earth’s history, and in particular noting the significant diversification caused by life- including humans, who have for example created new species of garnet.
- Patricia Cortazzo, Carlos Cervenansky, Monica Marn, Claude Reiss, Ricardo Ehrlich, and Atilio Deana. Silent mutations affect in vivo protein folding in Escherichia coli. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 293 (2002) 537–541 (HTML (seb req’d) PDF) Silent mutations aren’t so silent after all, and analog reality surfaces again!
By Topic
- Ocean Acidification