Jamie Zvirzdin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jamie Zvirzdin

I read a bad review, a most bitter unfair screed, of Mary Roach's Stiff, so I'm countering it with a five-star review of my own: @wwnorton @mary_roach #AAASMtg Stiff is a gift from Mary Roach. It is accessible, funny, unusual, personal, powerful. While some people revere or 1/2

Jamie Zvirzdin

"But time is short, and science is infinite—how infinite only those who study astronomy fully realize—and perhaps I shall be worn out before I make my mark." —Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower https://t.co/NJFMFPIQGv

Jamie Zvirzdin

Our teeth evolved to be *spectacularly* precise and useful. Tougher than bone, they show up frequently in fossils. So thanks, teeth. I know how far you've come. For more on how impressive your teeth are, I recommend Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin. https://t.co/rjlnO44LBo @PBS

Jamie Zvirzdin

@Kapoor_ML @uproot_project @Open_Notebook @sejorg One of my favorite topics! I teach The Funny Side of Science at JHU, and we've been compiling a long list. My favorites? Anything by Mary Roach, particularly these: Fuzz Stiff Grunt Bonk Gulp Spook Feel free to message me for more! #scicomm @mary_roach #FunnySideofScience

Jamie Zvirzdin

"But time is short, and science is infinite—how infinite only those who study astronomy fully realize—and perhaps I shall be worn out before I make my mark." —Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower https://t.co/NJFMFPIQGv

Jamie Zvirzdin

Jump around! Whoop and holler! You hear! Shout, Will, sing, but most of all laugh, you got that, laugh! I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags. Don't feed them one damn thing, Willy, loosen your bones! Breathe! Blow! —Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

Jamie Zvirzdin

Me 'n Maxwell's Equations, painted for me by my sweet 6yo nephew (with help from my art-saavy sister & equation-saavy brother-in-law). I'd love to write an accessible book on these equations, once #SubatomicWriting is published! @JHUPress #Electromagnetics #EM #physics #Maxwell https://t.co/CiGA6XryBX

Jamie Zvirzdin

@Kapoor_ML @uproot_project @Open_Notebook @sejorg One of my favorite topics! I teach The Funny Side of Science at JHU, and we've been compiling a long list. My favorites? Anything by Mary Roach, particularly these: Fuzz Stiff Grunt Bonk Gulp Spook Feel free to message me for more! #scicomm @mary_roach #FunnySideofScience

Jamie Zvirzdin

scientific method, & every person in the blessed Solar System read How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie and resolved to be a better, less manipulative human in general. And they all lived happily every after. The End. I can't change anyone, and I'm not going

Jamie Zvirzdin

@BirchBarkEd I just finished the biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. It was so good.