Polymath at Large

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, animals The book title is The Truth About Animals: Stones Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the ...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, bird watching, birding, obsessions, travelogues Everybody collects something…or several somethings....

kw: book reviews, science fiction, space aliens, first contact, singing, competitions Well, after a few serious books in a row, I was read...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, geology, plate tectonics A formative experience of mine took place in a wilderness area north of Twenty Lake...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, natural history, wolves, yellowstone A wolf in the wild seldom lives more than nine years. The wolf called O...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, naturalists, taxonomy, systematics, natural history, africa, african setting Environmental stewardship is on...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, medicine, alternative medicine, hype, advice As much as I appreciate doctors and nurses, I am rather skeptic...

kw: book reviews, science fiction, anthologies, victorian era, collections I grew up reading Victorian-era science fiction and semi-fantas...

kw: book reviews, science fiction, space travel, space aliens, artificial intelligence Considering recent titles by Ben Bova, I figure tha...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, futuristics, forecasting OK, so where are the flying cars? Well, junior airmen everywhere, the first commerc...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, do it yourself, spies, survival Espionage is quite exciting to many people. My mother loved spy stories, the...

kw: book reviews, science fiction, fantasy, robots, golems, automata Since history began people have dreamed of creating beings like ourse...

kw: book reviews, science fiction, space fiction, space opera, short stories I must admit I like Star Trek more than Star Wars . As I rec...

kw: musings, special relativity, physics I am between books, catching up on journal reading. Something has arisen in my thoughts from time...

kw: analytical projects, spectroscopy, photographs Technical photography of biological subjects has its tricky aspects. An important one i...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, planet mars, popular treatments As large as the planet Mars looms in history and in the popular consciousnes...

kw: species summaries, natural history, natural science, museums, research, photographs In the course of time I have come to a cabinet-and...

kw: book reviews, nonfiction, psychology, neurology, errors, consciousness Oliver Sack's fifteenth, and last, book is The River of Con...