Polymath at Large

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, oceanography, fishing, tuna, fish tagging, biographies What a title to begin with: Kings of Their Ow...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, gas, gases, vapor This is a mercury barometer of a type one could buy in the late 1800's. In 184...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, spin, rotation, angular momentum Imagine a universe that consists of two identical objects. They can...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, artificial intelligence, simulated intelligence, AI, SI, christian perspective, polemics, gospel What is your...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, biology, natural history, spiders James O'Hanlon loves spiders, particularly jumping spiders. Seeing thes...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning I have this browser set to show Blog Stats when it opens. Preparing to review a book, I noticed that t...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, natural history, bats Why does this bat have its mouth open? It's not in anticipation of biting ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, epidemiology, airborne pathogens When I saw the title, Airborne: The Hidden History of the Life we Breathe , ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, biology, naturalists, natural history, citizen science, cities When you think of Picnic Guests, what...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, biology, naturalists, natural history, citizen science I took this picture in 2010, the first year I...

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning After a week of lower activity, scanning of this blog has leapt up again in the past two days. Here...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, oceanography, marine biology The Blue Sea Dragon is a beautiful creature, a type of sea slug. You wo...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, biology, physics, cosmology, genetics, first contact To put Sara Imari Walker's last question fi...