Reviews

Noctilucent Cloud by The Chromatics

It’s not often one has an opportunity to hear both noctilucent cloud and mesospheric in the same song, but the highly educational and always entertaining Chromatics have provided us an opportunity to do so.

Kyla Hanington, posted on April 29th, 2008
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Hammering Out Our Differences

“We have not met, yet I feel I know you well enough to call you friend.” So begins the letter to a Southern Baptist pastor that E.O. Wilson weaves into a riveting account of the peril posed by the extinction of life in The Creation: An Appeal To Save Planet Earth.

Paul Racette, posted on March 3rd, 2008
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“Guns, Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond

Book review by Jay Pearlman

Jared Diamond starts his book with a question from an acquaintance in New Guinea: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people have little cargo of our own.” Whether the cargo is wealth, power, good medicines or a long life, Diamond sets out to answer this question in a logical and analytical process and 440 pages later comes to some interesting and very thoughtful conclusions.

jay pearlman, posted on July 31st, 2007
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“The World is Flat”? by Thomas L. Friedman

Book Review by Albin J. Gasiewski

When it was suggested to me by Cleon Anderson, the 2005 President of the IEEE, to read “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman, my initial reaction was to think that I had already heard all that I needed to know about globalization. Fortunately, my curiosity and Cleon’s insistence got the better of me, and I bought the book at the outset of a trip from Denver to New Delhi.

Paul Racette, posted on July 31st, 2007
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