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 "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -- Mark Twain
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." - Chinese proverb
It's a pity that most of us spend all of our time on science and do not read anything to feed our brains. We now provide a forum for all colleagues and academics to introduce and exchange their thought on the good books that they have read. Any discipline is open for discussion, but we reserve the right to guard our web site against porn, politics and religion.
Anyone who loves to read will appreciate Thomas Jefferson's sentiment,"I cannot live without books." Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, and there could be no concept of humanity.
Forget about Jean-Jacoues Rousseau's saying, "I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about." Your contributions will help our web site be a source of reading and thinking. |
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| Playing the Game: The Streetsmart Guide to Graduate School by Fredrick Frank and Karl Stein 2004 iUniverse, Inc, 256 pages, ISBN-10: 0595304869 |
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| Embedded in an obnoxious tone, rampant sexism, and juvenile humor, these bad boy authors provide some GREAT advice. They have broken down Playing The Game into three hilarious and straightforward sections: Getting In, Getting Through, and Getting the Hell Out. In whatever stage of graduate school you find yourself, rest assured that you will never again grumble, "If only I had known! If only someone had explained this @%#! to me sooner!" ...Read more |
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| Life Is Tough and Then You Graduate: The second Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection by Jorge Cham, 2005, Piled Higher and Deeper Publishing, 105p, ISBN-10: 0972169520 |
| A recent survey by U.C. Berkeley found that 95% of all graduate students feel overwhelmed, and over 67% have felt seriously depressed at some point in their careers. In his 2nd collection of comic strip on graduate students' life, Jorge Cham recounts his experiences bringing humor into the lives of stressed out academics, examines the source of their anxieties and explores the guilt, the myth, and the power of procrastination. ...Read more |
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| Agrofuels - towards a reality check in nine key areas by Transnational Institute, 2007, 34 pages |
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| This report sets out considerable evidence that the spread of what are more accurately called- agrofuels - liquid fuels produced from biomass grown in large-scale monocultures is compromising biodiversity and fuelling human rights violations ...Read more |
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| The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson, 304 pages, North Point Press, 2002, ISBN-10: 086547625X |
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| As sources of food, medicine, and beauty itself, plants have occupied the attention of women much as politics and war have occupied the attention of men.The fact that Earth is given the title "Mother" attests to this bond, lending it a legitimacy not always recognized by the male of the species ...Read more |
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| Auxin receptor hides in plain sight by David Secko, The Scientist/Everyday 21(5): 69, 2007 |
| "Long hunt for auxin receptors turns up the F-box protein TIR1 and a novel mechanism." |
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| Auxin does it all in plants. The hormone is absolutely pervasive in plant biology, regulating aspects of cell growth, division, and specialization. Charles Darwin and his son Francis noted its influence on the bending of plants toward light in 1880. Despite years of interest in how auxin (or indole-3-acetic acid, which was discovered in the 1930s) signaling works, the hormone has held its molecular secrets tightly ...Read more |
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