November 24, 2000

2:01 PM

What's Bill reading over the holiday weekend?He seems to be deliberately holding the book so it can be observed, but I don't recognize the cover and can't make out the title. Anybody?
posted by quonsar (10 comments total)

It's by Michio Kaku, and it looks like it's visions (see his published works for comparisons)

Maybe he's looking for somewhere to go?
posted by cCranium at 2:08 PM on November 24, 2000

It's Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century by Michio Kaku.

posted by rcade at 2:09 PM on November 24, 2000

(I can't believe I just did a squinted at that long enough to make out his name and do search for "Michio" and find the "official" site. I should just go home.)
posted by cCranium at 2:09 PM on November 24, 2000

(nyah nyah, beat you rcade)
posted by cCranium at 2:09 PM on November 24, 2000

Yeah, but I spent an extra minute doing a geeky Amazon search so I could answer definitively.
posted by rcade at 2:12 PM on November 24, 2000

(In other words, YOU BASTARD!)
posted by rcade at 2:18 PM on November 24, 2000

I am surprised, considering the criticism over the Cassini mission that Kaku was ringleading.
posted by norm at 3:33 PM on November 24, 2000

Really? You can't think science is important without buying into everything scientists want?
posted by rodii at 3:38 PM on November 24, 2000

>I can't believe I just did a squinted at that long enough
>to make out his name and do search for "Michio" and
>find the "official" site. I should just go home.)

That's the best part (and the part which no one really acknowledges in their anti-weblog screeds) of publishing a weblog: researching topics of which you may have limited knowledge. Over the past two and a half years of publishing kottke.org, I've learned more than I probably did in the same amount of time in college...and by posting what I've found, I share my discoveries with others. I live for the squint-search-post.

posted by jkottke at 4:05 PM on November 24, 2000

After eight years at Oxford, I can only second that: you learn in spite of the curriculum, not because of it. Which is why I love the extended serendipity of the web.
posted by holgate at 4:29 PM on November 24, 2000