Reading List: Science + Art
I just downloaded my first iBook to my small-screened iPhone: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. I read a NY Times review that sparked my interest in the book naming all sorts of bizarre trivia for space travel. Needless to say, this book is rich with anecdotes. And I’m only one chapter in! Roach mentions the document Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon. (The paper is exactly that. It’s well written too. It even won an award.) So much attention to detail in this book!
My goal was to read ten books (for fun and for potential thesis research) during my summer break from grad school. I wanted to get a head start on developing a topic and writing my thesis proposal. I’ve started 3 books and haven’t completed one. All of these books are for research:
The list goes on: Art + Science Now by Stephen Wilson; The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow; The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century by Jerome Kagan; Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer.
