Originally posted by dstar I presume everybody has free time
What book you reading now
What your favorite
Reading several.
Fiction: Charles Stross The Revolution Trade, the final Merchant Princess book. I'm interested to see how he ties it up.
Nonfiction: David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. The knowledge of lateral gene transfer and recognition of the interrelatedness of life requires we think about species, families, orders etc. differently.
Nonfiction: Franz de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Mostly it's human arrogance and bias which have kept us from fully investigating and understanding both what intelligence is and how intelligent our fellow living creatures are.
Nonfiction: Deborah Gordon: Ants at Work. Ant colonies are organized, we know that. Exactly what they are and how they self-organize is examined here.