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Media Recommended
These are the recommendations of friends, colleagues, family, and my own passing curiosity. I have respect for these individuals, but will not personally recommend material that I have no first-hand knowledge of. I have not read, viewed, or otherwised experienced the works listed here.
New Recommendations
 | Mathematics for the Millions by Lancelot Hogben |
 | The Fly in the Ointment: 70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life, by Dr. Joe Schwarcz |
 | Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask, by New Scientist |
 | Head in the Clouds (Charlize Theron, Penélope Cruz, Directed by John Duigan) |
 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood |
 | Blink - A book on rapid cognition by Malcolm Gladwell |
 | The Tipping Point - A book on change by Malcolm Gladwell |
 | Letters to a young poet, Rainer Maria Rilke |
 | Wonderfalls |
 | Retrospective, Videos of Suzanne Vega |
 | The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil |
| Perry_Rhodan | Perry Rhodan prolific literary science fiction series, published 1961 in Germany |
 | Enterprise Stardust, Perry Rhodan by K.H. Scheer & Walter Ernsting |
 | Chronicles of the Lensmen, by by E.E. “DOC” SMITH |
 | Deathworld, Harry Harrison |
 | Lost and Found : The Taken Trilogy Book 1, Alan Dean Foster |
Past Recommendations
 | Winged Migration, by Jacques Perrin | film on the imprinting of birds and migration |
 | Naked Happy Girls, by Andrew Einhorn | curiosity |
 | The Imposter | science fiction film |
 | The Creative Mind, Margaret Boden | |
 | Kafka - The Trial | |
 | “The Feeling of Power”, Nine Tomorrows, short fiction by Isaac Asimov | |
 | Colossus: The Forbin Project, film by D.F. Jones | |
 | A.N. Roquelaure, pseudonym of Anne Rice writing erotica | |
 | The Graduate | |
 | Risky Business | |
 | The Big Easy | |
| + | Trio Television channel (brilliant but canceled) | |
| + | Martin Ordener, Games column of Scientific American | |
| + | Satirical Pieces by Umberto Eco - Misreadings | |
| + | Scientific America - article on modularity, suggested by charmed_quark | |
 | White Oleander, novel by Janet Fitch | |
 | The Game, film by Michael Ferris (related to Alternate Reality Gaming) | |
 | ‘Put your head on my shoulder’ song by Paul Anka (for wedding, suggested by Truc-Ha) | |
 | On a Pale Horse, Piers Anthony | |
 | How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker | |
 | The Invention that Changed the World, Robert Buderi | |
 | Overdosed America, John Abramson | |
 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | |
 | Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan | |
| + | Shorty Watches Shorty, Comedy Central mapping of comic to animation | |
 | What the Bleep do we know? | pseudo-science film |
 | Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler | |
 | The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Steven Raymond | |
 | Make Your Own Working Paper Clock, James Smith Rudolph, ISBN 0-06-091066-6 | |
 | Phone Booth | |
 | Distributed Network Operations, by Jeffrey R Cares |
