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,

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

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

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