A log!

Sulla Felix

We'll see how this goes.

Today I finished:



Pretty light reading, but interesting. Prompts an interest in a lot of further reading. For one, the EATR robot, for two, the bacteria modified to produce ethanol that nearly worked too well...

Sulla Felix

Hmm. Forgot all about this, so some updating is needed.

In no particular order, but all read since my last post:

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

I thoroughly enjoyed this. The first book I've read of his and nothing at all what I was expecting. A friend recommended it because "you like astronomy and stuff" so I was kind of expecting a run of the mill scifi.



Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley

Interesting book touching on neuroscience in humans and insects.



Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

I'm 99% certain I read this before as a teenager, still enjoyable though.



The Fifth Elephant by Terry Prathett

As above, a re-read but still good.



Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Important Mineral by Mark Bitterman

Part social history, part chemistry, part cookbook this one's had me looking in a roundabout way at some molecular gastronomy blogs.



A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer

Real eye opener of a book.



Deadly Choices

Read this one right after the above. Suffice it to say at this stage I think there's people who deserve to be locked up for the amount of misinformation out there that's literally killing people.



Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization by David Montgomery

Similar enough to some of Jared Diamonds work.



Work! Consume! Die! by Frankie Boyle

Odd mix of his usual dark comedy with some insightful cultural commentary.