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http://www.amazon.com/Jonas-Salk-Charlotte-DeCroes-Jacobs/dp/0199334412

Nice start: image of thousands of toilet flushes !

http://www.amazon.com/Sync-Order-Emerges-Universe-Nature/dp/0786887214

enjoyed all these episodes from the Mendelspod podcast (http://mendelspod.com/)

Affymetrix CEO, Frank Witney, on Arrays in the Age of Sequencing 22:40 3/10/15

Rare Disease Horizons: The Hope of New Research and Technology, Part II: Other Omics with Mike Snyder, Stanford 22:20 5/9/14

In Partnership with IBM’s Watson, Pathway Genomics Reinvents Itself 16:02 3/12/15

Short Read Sequencing Not Up to the Task of Characterizing
Transcriptome Says Mike Snyder of Stanford 26:46 9/10/14

The Sports Genes with Jeremy Koenig, Athletigen 22:32 6/4/15

Want Answers? Look to the Non-Coding Region of the Genome, Says Cancer Researcher, Tim Triche 24:45 7/9/15

Bina CEO Details Secret to Success in NGS Informatics 26:29 7/17/15

New York Genome Center’s Nathan Pearson on Public Outreach for Genomics 32:49 8/19/15

http://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Universe/dp/1400075998

Interesting but dated read. Discusses how hThe Future of Man @sciam: Interesting but dated; how humans are anti-evolving because of medicine http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-future-of-man #evolution

http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammag/?contents=2009-jan

I found Steven Gaines’ book The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan quite interesting overall. I read it from the
perspective of someone wanting to learn some context behind the convoluted world of Manhattan real estate. In this regard some parts of the book are not that useful: principally those that in a gossipy sense focus on celebrities buying seven and eight figure properties and all the machinations to get past apartment co-op boards. On the other hand there is some genuinely useful factual information. It provides the history of a number of the structures in Manhattan, in particular the cooperative structure, which ironically started out as a socialist inspired movement for tenants who own their building but in modern times this turned into the ultimate exclusive club for the very rich. (There are some great quotes in the book about such excesses such as Bill Clinton’s remarking on the fantasy Upper East Side co-op, that it makes the White House almost look like public housing.) The book also gives a lot of background on some of the prominent buildings in Manhattan such as the Time Warner Center, the Ansonia Hotel and the Dakota. Finally it gives some perspective on the different neighborhoods, contrasting the large parcels available on Central Park West with the smaller and older developed real estate on the Upper East Side. Overall, a good read with a bit of useful facts to impart.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A255VTLSSZIVT9/ref=cm_pdp_rev_title_1?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview#R13M6X7GOMGMBJ

Good discussion of lots of technical stuff, including regions of the brain, how nerves work, & artificial neural nets
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B002KE9BPO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352690693&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Brain%3A+A+Very+Short+Introduction+%28Unabridged%29

http://www.amazon.com/Little-History-World-H-Gombrich/dp/0300108834 A Little History of the World [Hardcover]
E. H. Gombrich (Author)

Not such a good one

http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Clayton-Christensen/dp/1565114159

Lots of movie mentions: Momento, Total Recall, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The Matrix (as Plato’s cave)
Claims Murray and Herrnstein’s Bell Curve discredited by Head Start

The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Alison Gopnik
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Baby-Childrens-Minds-Meaning/dp/0374231966