Archive for September, 2004
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
Sunday, September 26th, 2004
by Armand Marie Leroi
ISBN: 0670031100
Leroi is fascinated with the development of bodies. The sort of body-sculpting that happens in the gym or with the plastic surgeon's knife isn't his thing,
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Thursday, September 16th, 2004
by George Saunders
illustrated by Lane Smith
ISBN: 0375503838
In case I wasn't entirely clear on this point earlier, I love George Saunders. He may be a genius.
Frip is a small (three-house) goat-keeping
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Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction
Thursday, September 16th, 2004
by Walton Ford
ISBN: 0810932865
Walton Ford's images almost look like they could be be plates from a nineteenth century naturalist's publication -- almost, that is, except for the starling doling out
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Sunday, September 12th, 2004
by Steven Johnson
ISBN: 0684868768
Ants -- and slime mold -- are more interesting, and more intelligent, than I ever would have guessed. Their intelligence isn't the same as human intelligence, as
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