ortholog

ortho-, meaning correct, true, straight;
-log, meaning sequential record, the opposite of exponential, a piece of wood

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Books worth a look

Chewing

  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

Digested this year

  • The Men Who Stare At Goats, by Jon Ronson
  • A Partisan's Daughter, by Louis de Bernieres
  • The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham (reread to kids)
  • Thief Of Time, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Thud!, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky
  • Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks
  • Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre
  • Proust Was A Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer
  • Shakespeare, by Bill Bryson (reread)
  • Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer
  • Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
  • New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
  • Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
  • Wings, by Terry Pratchett (reread to kids)
  • Diggers, by Terry Pratchett (reread to kids)
  • The Last Colony, by John Scalzi
  • The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
  • The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout

Eyeing greedily

  • Spook Country, by William Gibson
  • The Book Of Dave, by Will Self
  • Deerskin, by Robin McKinley

All books read since 1996

Recent decent PNAS papers

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