The other book I read over Christmas was “Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum” by Richard Fortey. This is an interesting tour of some of the past and present personalities behind the Natural History Museum, London. I found it a really interesting light read. A good motto put…
Tag: Reviews
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre is one of my favourite writers, I turn to his column in the Guardian each Saturday before anything else. I read his excellent book “Bad Science” over Christmas, and I really recommend it. He looks primarily at the reporting of science in the media but also about the science (lack of) in everyday…
Reading the story in DNA
I just received a copy of “Reading the story in DNA; a beginner’s guide to molecular evolution” by Lindell Bromham, OUP 2008, ISBN: 978-0-19-929091-8I have only looked at it quickly but it is very impressive. I like the writing style. It is well produced. Figures are excellent. The parts I have read are full of…
Beer and Publications
OK, so I was going to write about bioinformatics and phylogenetics in this blog, and here is my second post already that ignores both!I just read a paper testing the relationship between beer consumption and publication output of ecologists in the Czech Republic. Apparently the higher your consumption the lower your total number of publications,…
The Origins of Genome Architecture- Lynch
So I don’t hate all books. Over Christmas I read Michael Lynch’s new book “The Origins of Genome Architecture”. One of the best books I have read in a long time. Well-written, clearly argued, well referenced and important. If you like molecular evolution, genomics or related topics you should definitely read this. I learned a…
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