I like my friends in weird places. Well, I call America ‘weird’, but they sure do produce some good stuff on occasion. Can weird be a synonym for ‘charming’?
Today’s reading material was sent to me by a fellow who isn’t a ‘skeptic’, nor really one for online interactions – since I had a nasty and rather stupid-on-my-behalf run-in recently (‘in these hot days the mad blood is stirring…’) I can understand his reticence. I will say this for him, he is a wonder for finding brilliant online resources for good listening. All the keeping quiet he does is directed into seeking out ‘the acoustical liberation of books in the public domain’, so he must be doing something right!
If there’s anyone I could share my fondness for stripy socks, it’d be this guy. I’m yet to figure out how to profit from that particular preference, but after the ‘Emily the Strange’ phenomenon, it’s probably terribly pass? anyway.
So – ‘The Right Way To Do Wrong’ - Harry Houdini, master illusionist and contortionist, unmasks the various ways that criminals take advantage of their victims. (summary by Lee Ann Howlett).
Utterly fantastic. You can have the whole book! You can have mp3s! You can even have a ‘chapter a day’!
Naturally, I greedily downloaded the whole lot for listening to whilst I travel this weekend. I should also mention other travelling companions I’m going to have – ‘The Canon’ by Natalie Angier. I’m hoping to meet a few other science journalists over the weekend, mostly to see if they have any answers for the article written by Robyn Williams in the most recent Australasian Science on The Aging of Science Media. This particular article I’ll expand upon on Sunday’s blog post – as it seems that Robyn Williams has already decided how to ‘do right’ in science communication… but I think he’s missed some major developments on the way…
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