This is late but we all need to deal with disappointment in our lives. Memorable events for 2009: Heading to Chicago Thanksgiving weekend freezing at the lake Freezing at the cabin in late April with snow on the ground Favorite books I read in 2009: The BLDGBlog Book The War by Ken Burns The Kennedys [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Invention of Air’
Christmas Gift Guide: Gifts for Really Smart People
You need a gift for someone smart, someone who wants to know about everything – what happened, how it works, why it all got started. Fortunately, the globally curious have a lot of hobbies which makes them kind of easy to shop for, even if you don’t always remember to sleep and eat. Below are [...]
The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
I finally finished The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson last weekend. I was 20 pages into it when it got left up at the cabin for a couple of weeks. The book is centered on the life of Joseph Priestley, the 18th-century British natural philosopher (or amateur scientist) who most people know as the [...]
