1. Fellow Yalie Paula Chatterjee has just started blogging from Uganda, where she is working on a summer project educating and empowering commercial sex workers in Kampala. Paula is thoughtful, articulate and intelligent, and her first post marks the start of what should be an interesting blog. Indeed, the writing reminds me of James Hudspeth's travel blog, which has since expanded to a blog about all things (congrats to James, by the way, for his well-deserved acceptance at the Brigham and Womens Internal Medicine Residency Program). Both blogs are linked in the sidebar.
2. Great NYT article on Dark Matter and the search for the Theory of Everything. I've recently gotten into popular science writing, and I am working through James Gleick's biography on Richard Feynman right now. It's great stuff, and I am planning on reading the latest Einstein biography as well as a book on the history and significance of E=MC^2.
3. Speaking of science writing, I am trying to find a good book on the periodic table of elements. I've been intrigued by this ever since 8th grade, when we learned about how scientists converged on the periodic table and predicted the existence of many hitherto undiscovered elements. I found this book: any thoughts?
4. Is there an economics theory as powerful as the periodic structure of elements in making predictions about the future and/or unknowns?
2 comments:
the periodic table book looks excellent. obviously that is purely subjective and based on the amazon reviews that you have already seen. i think you should read it.
Thought I should tell you that Paula Chatterjee's blogging from Uganda is quite interesting.
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