I was moving and traveling and stuff in July and August, but I did read some books. This list will be longer next time, but they'll mostly be school-related.
Book Books

• , said the shotgun to the head by Saul Williams: I actually read poetry, and it was amazing.
• Chuck Klosterman IV
• Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life ( Read more... )

I just wrote this on my other blog and am cross-posting here as favored ( Read more... )

I'm starting a new blog called Historical Present, partly because I want to have a pseudo-professional history of science blog and partly because I really really love the title. If you're interested in my thoughts about the internet, creationism, and other "science, technology and society" stuff, please read it ( Read more... )

I have slightly too much time and too little social life for the next couple weeks, and a good independent video store near by. Any recommendations of movies that I ought to see and might not have?

Book Books

• Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
• The Evolution-Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

Book Books

• Candide by Voltaire, translated by Theo Cuffe
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
• Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create & Communicate by Steven Johnson

Comic Books

• Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, Steve Bisstte, and John Totleben
• Swamp Thing: Love and Death by Alan Moore, Stephen ( Read more... )

Douglas Rushkoff is someone I respect for his essays, though I haven't read his books with the exception of his comics. He's a wonderfully diverse thinker who tends to focus on how media relate to reality, a set of ideas he puts in a more economic framework in a new essay on “Riding Out the Credit Collapse.” It's technical but accessible in the ( Read more... )

So I made the grad school decision. Come fall, I will be a PhD student in the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. I figure I'll move there sometime in August, but I'll be in Cleveland most of the time until then. That is all.

Book Books

• PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel
• Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David Halperin: I read this and History of Sexuality in parallel. You should too.
• The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
• Animal Farm by George Orwell: I’d never read it. It ( Read more... )

One last time:

Minnesota
Wisconsin
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Harvard
Cambridge

The second half of my travel plans was FUBAR'd by the weather, and I never made it to DC or NCOR. I was tired enough that taking the train back home wasn't a bad thing, though.