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  Non-Fiction to Look Up

   • s******j@e***.**o.com
     31/05/1999 00:00:000 UTC

     _The Measure of Reality_ by Alfred Crosby.

     Interesting, light-academic-weight look at how filthy european
     barbarians

     adopted the habit of measuring and quanitifying things. In the hands of

     some pomo deconstructist quiff this would be an unbearable tedious

     white male conspiracy stuff, but Crosby makes it fun.

     _The Island of the Colorblind_ By Oliver Sacks

     Gonzo humanist neurologist visits a Pacific island where inbreeding

     has left a good chunk of the population totally colorblind. Great

     stuff; a fine antidote to years of thinking that SF had some insight

     on human nature.

     _Deep Time_ By Gregory Benford.

     SF writer's creditable first popular science book. Scattered
     introduction

     followed by three parts describing GB's work on "get the message across

     time" type projects, such as marking nuclear waste dumps or designing

     a crystal disk for inclusion on a space probe.

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