Oh So Boring…

There was a book review in this week’s Nature that I had to pass along (link, sadly, for subscribers only, but you get the first few lines of it).  It reviewed a book, Lilavati’s Daughters: The Women Scientists of India, published by the Indian Academy of Sciences.

If you like, the whole of Lilavati’s Daughters can be found at the IAS’ website here. Some of the autobiographical essays that I’ve read–and I haven’t read them all–are just great.  So good, in fact, that I’m thinking I might buy the book (available from Scholar Without Borders). Sure there is a slight (okay, whopping) premium over the base price of Rs300 to get it here, but $25 is worth a great book. Plus, I suppose I see buying a book like this as a show of support for women in science.

Even if they are all usually smarter than me. Damn you, nerds of the fairer sex!

Yours in women in science,

Matt

…the new Swatches are here!

Okay, not that exciting, but they are.  Going there, I look through the watches and see this one:

Good job setting the hands, there. Hey…I can be juvenile with the best of them!

There were also some just horrible ones:

I wouldn’t wear that on a dare.

There were some that I do like.  This one, for example:

So, I look at the “specs” and see…

Dammit!  Ladies get all the good watches! Or this one at least.

Yours in watches,

Matt

I saw an eft today while I was taking a walk around at lunch. Just thought it was cool.

Also cool: Im trying to walk more so I bought a pedometer. According to it, I did 20 minutes of aerobic walking at lunch. Yay!

ETA: After an evening walk, today I walked 3012 aerobic steps. Thats 34 minutes of aerobic walking. Overall, about 4500 steps. But most were aerobic. Double yay!