9th November 2008

Blinded with science!

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A few days ago, Pharyngula (PZ Myers) asked his readers “What science books ought a bookstore stock?”

In my cold-bedimmed fog, I have been tabulating the answers from the 438 responses that question got, carefully entering them into Excel.  I have finally listed them all and tabulated the results, but now I am just tired, tired, tired and I have x’s in my eyes, like a cartoon character.

So you get the Top 10 tomorrow.  It’s an interesting list.

I’m just posting this so I get in under the wire for NaBloPoMo, and to tease you all.

(ETA:  Well, damn.  I didn’t get in under the wire after all.  So *poof* goes my attempt at NaBloPoMo.  Bah.)

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There are currently 3 responses to “Blinded with science!”

  1. 1 On November 9th, 2008, Minot said:

    Actually, it went *poof* on November 5. Your He Won! entry didn’t make it under the wire either; it’s dated November 6. Too bad, we were looking forward to daily posts.

  2. 2 On November 9th, 2008, Karyn said:

    I’m looking forward to seeing the top ten. I’m not sure I have the energy to look through all 4xx responses but may pop over there to anyway.

    Have you ever listened to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe?

    Karyn

  3. 3 On November 9th, 2008, Lisa said:

    Awesome! I wanted to be a scientist when I was a kid but I ended up an English major instead. My senior year of college I took a “science for dummies” class and got an A and the Geology department tried to recruit me to be a Geology major. If I came back in another life, maybe I’d be a scientist. But anyway, the few science books I’ve read in my life (A Brief History of Time, In Search of Shrodinger’s Cat, something about chaos theory) have really impacted my perception of the universe — I’m really curious to hear the top ten science books, and add them to the ever-growing pile of books that are on deck.

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