West of the Moon

phone home! be good!

On a much lighter note: our TiVo picked up ET recently, and I watched it last night.
You know, I’m trying to remember the last time I saw ET. It may have been in Spanish class (and thus in Spanish) in tenth grade. ET is one of those movies that I always felt like [...]

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critical mass.

I have, officially, too many books-in-progress.  (Reading, not writing.)  I usually have two or three going at the same time–different ones for different moods, or different locations–but this has just gotten out of hand.
The current list of books I’m partway through reading, plus the reason why I haven’t finished them yet:

Africa: A Biography of a [...]

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africa reading challenge.

I’ve decided to join the Africa Reading Challenge, which I first learned about from Matt Cheney. It’s pretty straightforward: read six books this year that are either about Africa or by African authors. Ever since I first put together the unit on African science for my survey course on science in [...]

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