recommendations recommendations from posted comments at sallymckay's blog archive

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Quarantine, by Greg Egan. first posted here.

The "original" Alex Wilson (1766-1813). first posted here.

Miyazaki fan site. first posted here.

Nausicaä by Miyazaki. first posted here.

Rosenzweig & Blackmar's social history of Central Park, The Park & the People. first posted here.

Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. first posted here.

Robert Fludd, the last guy who knew everything. first posted here.

The Painter of Modern Life, Baudelaire on Manet. first posted here.

Mark Tilden's robots. first posted here.

Sigmar Polke. first posted here.

Don Knotts in Mr. Limpett. first posted here.

Culture Shock: Japan. first posted here.

Children of The A Bomb, a collection of descriptive essays by children who survived the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. first posted here.

Back to the Future. first posted here.

Fail Safe, by Sidney Lumet, a film about nuclear power that came out around the same time as Dr. Strangelove. first posted here.

Trigger Happy, by Steven Poole, a book by an articulate gamer. first posted here.

Hexen, an old computer game. first posted here.

many art criticism suggestions in the comments thread here.

history of anime suggestions (first posted here):
Anime: From Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation --Good overview by University of Texas prof Susan Napier
The Anime Encyclopedia--Insanely detailed show by show run-down. Very dry British-style humor in the writing (not sure if the authors are British--I think they are).
The Anime Companion: What's Japanese in Japanese Animation --more of a cultural encyclopedia, but tied to things you see in specific shows. Hugely informative and fun. (But organized alphabetically according the Japanese names for things--you end up skipping around in the book a lot.)

wave/particle duality update. first posted here.

Brian Greene on string theory. first posted here.

Made for TV version of Michael Frayne's Copenhagen. first posted here.

William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. first posted here.

John Banville's Doctor Copernicus, The Newton Letter, and Kepler, novels about scientists. first posted here.

Antonio Damasio, neurologist on consciousness. first posted here.

I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus, a "radio play on vinyl" by Firesign Theatre. first posted here (more info here).

Planet Krulik. first posted here.

Two Small Bodies, a film by Beth B. first posted here.

artist on LSD. first posted here.

Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlin's series. first posted here.

Laurie R King's mysteries about Mary Russell. first posted here.

Life of Pi. first posted here.

Robert Heinlein's waldos. first posted here.

Arthur C. Clarke's V2 for Ionospheric Research, published by Wireless World in 1945. first posted here.

Freeman Dyson, a scientist influenced by art. first posted here.

Obit for Billy Kulver, scientist who worked with Rauschenberg. first posted here.

The Particle Adventure, a primer on quantum physics. first posted here.

Michio Kaku on string theory. first posted here.

Obituary for Mary Wesley. first posted here.

SCTV spoof of Goin' Down the Road. first posted here.

Chart Sweep. first posted here.

Classical Gas by Mason Williams, aired on Smother's Brothers TV show. first posted here. (more info here).

Mythbusters, a TV show about urban legends. first posted here.

The Left Hand of Darknes, by Ursula K. Le Guin. first posted here

American film version of The Laughing Policeman from the Swedish Martin Beck mystery series. first posted here.

Alberti's On Painting. first posted here

Agrippa, by WIlliam Gibson, a story on a disk that sef-erases as you read it. first posted here.

The Chain of Chance, by Stanislav Lem. first posted here.