Recent Reads: A Short History of Nearly Everything

I swear, some more art or game-related posts are coming up soon (a short preview: PAWS still chugging along, some paintings being worked on)  But for now, more bookish filler!

This may surprise anyone whose only exposure to me has been through my generally art-related (and/or ditzy posts) on internet forums–not to mention, this blog–but my background is science.  For true!  An Hon. BSc and everything ;)  And from my time at university, where I dabbled in areas from neuroanatomy to insect biology, it became easy not only to lose the forest for the trees, but to lose the trees for leaf spiracles.   Things have a way of getting dreary.  Sometimes, even now, I wonder how I ended up there… but Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything reminded me :) (more…)

1st August, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - 3 Comments