panda's thumb

Every single regular reader of this blog has read or intends to read Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History. I just noticed that the Kindle version of it is available for $1.99, and I assume this is temporary. I already had the book on dead-tree matter, but I picked this up because ebooks are searchable! You will want one two. Every single regular reader of this blog SHOULD want to read, or should have already read, Mary Doria Russell's excellent binary set including The Sparrow: A Novel and Children of God. (The Sparrow is first, COG second.) Right now…
Professor Steve Steve (of "Panda's Thumb" fame) sits with GrrlScientist in an internet cafe and coffee shop near her home in NYC. Professor Steve Steve will accompany GrrlScientist to London, England at the end of August. Image: GrrlScientist 10 August 2008 [larger view].