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I'm 27. I'd guess most of the users on this forum are between 20-40.

I went to a library sale yesterday and came home with: * Modern Literature of the Non-Western World * 10 Issues of Writer’s Digest * The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volumes 1 and 2 * Harper’s Modern Classics1950 Edition of Pride and Prejudice * The Story of...

I like the series quite a bit, my favorites are Mariel of Redwall and Triss.

Tall Grass Prairie Boiling air rolls and rises, Distorts the giant grasses As they retain pockets of heat And belch hot breath In putrid waves When parted. Burning Claustrophobia In a tangled labyrinth of Big bluestem and Indian grass, Seven feet tall, With self made paths...

Now I really want to live in Europe. Oh why did I ever move to the buckle of the bible belt :confused:

I do concede he's harder on the god issue than I thought at first, I tend to follow Gould's NOMA. I had forgotten that Dawkins and Gould fought about this issue as well as the finer points of evolutionary theory. Still, Dawkins has a point, we can examine the Earth's center indirectly by...

Then you need to read this book more carefully, because in chapter one he clearly states he is not arguing against non-personal or pantheistic gods. I never said he did consider science and religion of a personal god compatible, I stated that he did not argue against a naturalistic (non...

From my understanding, it's an argument against a personal god; a god that bends the laws of physics and biology to interfere with the lives of individuals. I've heard interviews where Dawkin's states that he doesn't have a problem with an impersonal or pantheistic god. Science really can't...

I have a few of these but I never noticed they had a stuffed bookworm as well: http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/bookworm.html I really think I need this :D

There is only one species of Swallowtail native to both the new and old world. It's called the Old World Swallowtail and is found in Canada and Eurasia. Also, The 17 year cicadas have red eyes while the annual variety have green. (I saw some yesterday, they're just soooo cute!)

I garden and hike. We just put in an 11,000 square foot garden so I have a lot of a lot of weeding ahead of me.

I like skepticality, the infidel guy, bad astronomy (or bad astronomer I can't recall) and evolution 101. There's also a population genetics podcast, but it only has two or three episodes and I don't think its being updated. I think the national geographic and discovery channal casts are good...

While I cannot speak to his motivation, I know that many scientists feel assaulted by the growing faith in "pseudoscience" and growing evangelism among Americans. As an evolutionary biologist myself, I find these statistics very worrisome...

What non-fiction genres are you particularly drawn too? History, Science/Nature Writing, Social Sciences, Biography, etc... I love all non-fiction, but my favorite genre is science and nature writing (I lump them together because they sort of blend, Gould's books could nicely fit in...

I'm on my way to the used book store to purchase a few chemistry textbooks from the 1890's... should be good fun! I can't wait to read them :D

To true, Darwin did not understand the mechanism for inheritance. Though he rejected Lamarkianism early in his life, he came to accept it as the only explanation available at the time... even though it didn't quite make sense to him. As I said before, if only he would have met Mendel, a...

I've read it, I think it's great, I'd recommend it, I've bought it for a few local libraries. Which edition did you read? I have two versions, first edition and the latest edition with Zinn's take on more recent events.

I've read it and it does seem to be factual, at least that is to say it corresponds to other accounts I've read. If you liked it/found it informative try reading "A Little Matter of Genocide" next...

We read the Origin in my History and Philosophy of Science class in college. I'd read bits of it before but was fairly put off by the flowery language. PNAS journal articles are easier to read than Darwin (if you skip the materials and methods section)... still, I liked it and I would like to...

I usually read just after after my 8 month old goes to sleep (my husband and I read aloud just before we put her to bed so I suppose that counts too). I'll also read whenever I get the chance but I generally only get a chance at night.