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Where There Is No Doctor 2010 version available now.

14 September 2010

The Hesperian Foundation has released their 2010 version of Where There Is No Doctor a 450 page book filled with advice on diagnosing and treating many different accidents and diseases. This is well worth having. The pdf is a free download, but I recommend the print version.

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The Road to Serfdom as a Comic Book @ AMERICAN DIGEST

10 June 2010

It looks like Glenn Beck’s show on The Road to Serfdom has caused Chicago Press to sell a 6 month supply of the book (about 13,000 copies) in less then 24 hours.
There is a Comic Book version available.

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Snarkmarket: Free Book Idea: Too Big to Succeed

8 July 2009

Snarkmarket: Free Book Idea: Too Big to Succeed
LOL, but some really good points.

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Richard Wrangham’s Catching Fire.? – By Christine Kenneally – Slate Magazine

1 July 2009

Richard Wrangham's Catching Fire.? – By Christine Kenneally – Slate Magazine: “Similarly, the more cooked food we ate, the less industrial-strength digestion we had to do, and the smaller our guts became. In the same way that our bodies evolved to better walk on two legs, our bellies changed to better handle well-done over rare. [...]

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Books are the ultimate shortcut

10 June 2009

A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing – ChronicleReview.com: “In 1948, the University of Illinois Press published Claude Shannon’s brief and profoundly influential book The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Shannon’s work, which explained how words, sounds, and images could be converted into blips and sent electronically, presaged the digital revolution in communications.”
Books are the ultimate shortcut. A [...]

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Gizmodo – What Is This? – Rosetta Disk

23 May 2009

Gizmodo – What Is This? – Rosetta Disk: “Looks like a billion gazillion television screens, thundering their nonsense and babbling at the same time in some gigantic art installation.”
Actually this would be really rather useful. But you would want to leave a 500x microscope with it or it would be ignored. At the very least [...]

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Marginal Revolution: What I’ve been reading

10 May 2009

Marginal Revolution: What I've been reading: “I also really recommend The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World by Larry Zuckerman although a further treatise on the tuber is probably one chip too many.”
There are a few histories on the potato. Must remember that.

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Better Times sustainabile living printable flyers

20 April 2009

Better Times sustainabile living printable flyers
This is a good list of things to do.

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Rocks Don’t Need to Be Backed Up

28 March 2009

Rocks Don't Need to Be Backed Up: “As we stood wondering at this archaeological marvel, my wife, ever mindful of how I spend the bulk of my time, blurted out, ‘Rocks do not need backing up!’”
Well, that is not quite correct. I’ve been to Egypt and there is a lot of sand there and there [...]

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