Love Letter To My Library

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“Homicide”

My intense fondness for the HBO Original Series The Wire inspired me to pick up the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon. Although Homicide more directly influenced the NBC show of the same name (which admittedly I’ve never seen), it is what started Simon down the path that eventually resulted […]

Posted in Crime, Political Tagged Baltimore, crime, David Simon, drugs, Ed Burns, Homicide, homicide detectives, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, Homicide: Life on the Streets, murder, police, The Wire Leave a comment

Good Books: Science

There are a lot of great books that I’ve read in the past that I want to give a quick nod to. Eventually, I may go back and write a dedicated entry for any I re-read them. In the meantime, I feel I owe them a few words here: The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum […]

Posted in "PopSci", », African-American Studies, Biography, Biological Science, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Crime, History of Science, Medical Science, Science, Technology Tagged abnormalities, Apache, autopsy, blindness, brain, brain mapping, cadaver, cadaver research, cancer, cognitive science, computers, CSI, Deborah Blum, DNA, Eric Raymond, ethics, evolution, exploration, forensics, free software foundation, genes, genetics, Glyn Moody, GNU, hacker, Haiti, HeLa, Henrietta Lacks, infectious disease, Linus Torvolds, Linux, Mars, Mary Roach, medical care, medicine, MIT, murder, NASA, neo-darwinian, Netscape, neurology, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, Oliver Sacks, open source, origin of life, pain, patient consent, patient rights, Paul Farmer, Perl, phantom limb, photography, poison, prohibition, radium, Ramachandran, Rebecca Skloot, research, Richard Dawkins, Richard Stallman, Rwanda, sex, software, space, Stanley Burns, Tracy Kidder, tuberculosis, V.S. Ramachandran Leave a comment

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