Topic
books
- Kindle
A couple years ago I bought a Kindle Paperwhite, after moving almost exclusively to ebooks when the Kindle iPhone app launched with the App Store. I read constantly, and always digital books, so I thought Iād write upā¦
- Bits & Genes
As I started The Gene, I was assuming itād be framed as a history of genetics. Thereās a significant amount of history on the discoveries made the last few centuries as scientists gained an understanding of how herediā¦
- Form Defining Function
I'm currently reading Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Gene, a history of the building block of living things. A great read, the right mix of history and discussion of future possibilities like gene manipulation, splicing,ā¦
- Books of 2016
I haven't done a book roundup in a couple of years. This year was more fiction than non-fiction, and my near-term list will probably continue that trend. Annals of the Former World, John McPhee. 1998. Top of the listā¦
- The Box That Built the Modern World
Great piece about the modularization of shipping and how it powered global trade. More than any other single innovation, the shipping containerāthere are millions out there, all just like the ones stacked on the Hongā¦
- Annals of the Former World
I majored in geography in college and always liked earth sciences. I dabbled a bit with classes that were related, but not core to geography study — your basic geology courses and a class in geodesy. One of theā¦
- The Craft of Baseball
Iām a baseball fan from way back, and grew up as a Braves fan during the early years of their 1990s NL East dominance. As much as I always enjoyed following the sport as a casual fan, Iād never studied the game much,ā¦
- The Three Laws of Robotics
>This is part two of a series on Isaac Asimov's Greater Foundation story collection. This part is about the short story collection, I, Robot. Picking up with the next entry in the Asimov read-through, I read a book Iā¦
- The Year in Books
2013 was busy in so many ways. Our product matured beyond the level I'd hoped it could, we've done some incredible mapping work around the world, and I'm just getting started with my involvement in an awesome local haā¦
- Upwhen and Downwhen
This is part one of a series of essays on Isaac Asimov's famous Greater Foundation story collection. In this first one I discuss the time travel mystery The End of Eternity. The prolific science fiction writer Isaac Aā¦
- Spycraft
I recently finished reading Spycraft, Robert Wallace and Keith Melton's chronicle of the CIA's spy tech divisions, specifically OTS (Office of Technical Services), the division responsible for creating technical espioā¦
- Counterinsurgency, a brief history
I've been reading a lot lately about sociocultural geography — about how people interact with their environments and with one another across space and time. This topic is more relevant than ever with today's borā¦
- Books of 2011
A list of books I read in 2011: Soccernomics, Simon Kuper Count Zero, William Gibson Debt of Honor, Tom Clancy The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss In the Plex, Steven Levy Connected, Nicholas Christakis & James Fowlā¦