Tag Archives: books
Wine Got to France Early
I first learned what amphoras were from the pages of Asterix comic books. Ok, most of what I know about the ancient world comes from those books. If you don’t know Asterix the Gaul, you are missing out–he’s the hero … Continue reading
Love my Livescribe Pen
I just realized I’d never pointed out a blog post I wrote months ago for the website of the Science Writers’ Handbook. I’ve raved on many occasions about my Livescribe pen, so the folks who are running the blog asked … Continue reading
Book Coming Soon!
Things are heating up for The Science Writers’ Handbook: Everything You Need to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age. I contributed two sidebars to this book, and I think it’s excellent–full of good, solid, practical advice about how … Continue reading
Book on Gamboa
Much of what I know about the town where I went for my frog story came from the book Gamboa: A guide to its natural and cultural heritage. The book is thorough. Really thorough. It starts with the geology of … Continue reading
Book Trailer
The Science Writers’ Handbook: Everything You Need to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age has a trailer! Yep, this is the modern world, where books get trailers, just like movies. Except for instead of that guy who does … Continue reading
Book News: The New Science Writers’ Handbook
I’m delighted to be a contributor to a book coming out next spring, called The New Science Writers’ Handbook: Telling Important Stories in a Noisy Age. It’s about how to do your job and not be miserable. My contribution to … Continue reading
Smell and Memory
Sniff sniff. Sniff. Have you ever had that experience where you smell something and are whisked back in time to your childhood? A lot of people have. Proust wasn’t just making it up with the whole madeleine thing, you know. … Continue reading
bird by bird by bird by bird
A beloved book has reentered my life. It’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. This was required reading in my science writing class at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and contains many useful pieces of advice, … Continue reading
field book project
I recently acquired a smartphone. (As a friend told me: “Welcome to 2005.”) This is improving my life in a lot of ways, among them that it is finally possible for me to read blogs. I know, yeah, I have … Continue reading
museum tourist: lincoln books
Ford’s Theatre–you may have heard of it, a certain president was shot there–is opening a new “Center for Education and Leadership.” That is, a new museum about Abraham Lincoln and what a big deal he is. I went through it … Continue reading