To celebrate the anniversary I have started reading Evolutionary Analysis. Expect a report in the fullness of time.
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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
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- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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Recently read
- The de Havilland DH.60 Moth S McKay. The women’s plane in its glory.
- Handbook on Rigid Class 23 Airships Admiralty Airship Department. An industry fumbles with high-tech.
- Barney Barnfather: Life on a Spitfire Squadron A Mansfield. Focussed on the progress of the war from the perspective of Barnfather’s squadrons.
- Last of the Ten Fighter Boys J Corbin. A humble pilot, more interested in booze and women than glory and heroism.
- A Splendid Little War D Robinson. RAF pilots and the Russian people, both so different from us normal people.
- 1491—New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 2nd ed C C Mann. Mann aims to shatter colonial preconceptions, yet at the same time argues US exceptionalism is based on Native traditions.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
- Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
4 comments:
Jag har en artikel från Illustrerad Vetenskap där det står: "I sin dagbok antecknade Darwin sina tankar, bland annat betydelsen av alla galapagosfinkar".
Där har du en riktig vetenskapsman!
Men vad är betydelsen av Galapagosfinkar?
Det vet bara Darwin, i djupet av sitt hjärtas hemligheter.
The Darwin Awards are aperiodically awarded by popular acclaim to those who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in ways that demonstrate that their removal constitutes an improvement.
I have a song about them here.
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